Burn-it-Down Memoirs from Women Who Lived Their Truth
These writers made unconventional choices, risked judgment—and
discovered what they really wanted out of life.
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
By Alexandra Fuller
272 pages;
Penguin Press
The Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight memoirist returns with a devastating and deft account of how her youth in Zambia and Zimbabwe led to the joys and disasters that followed her into adulthood.
— Sarah Meyer
Published 12/16/2014