Alexandra Fuller's COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS, a review for The Oregonian

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Alexandra Fuller returns to the African landscape in her memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. It accepts the curious task of being both a prequel and a sequel to her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. With a love of landscape, a historian's lens and a knack for laugh-out-loud satire aimed at her mother's narcissism, Fuller tells the broader story of her family's participation in the Rhodesian civil war.

(Published in The Oregonian, August 28, 2011. Read the full review here.)