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Travel light, move fast / Alexandra Fuller.

by Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-

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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020.

LP 960.0421 F965t

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- -- Family.

Fuller, Tim (Timothy Donald), 1940-2015.

British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.

9781432877071 (hc.)

Large print ed.

335 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

In the unlikely event of money, buy two tickets to Paris -- When in doubt, have a cigarette -- Befriend the moon -- Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet -- Don't just stand there, do something -- If you are it, you don't need to say it -- Make a plan, and if that doesn't work, make another plan -- If you're going to go to the dogs, go the whole way -- In times of excessive difficulty, cope excessively -- Routine : nature's antidote to disappointment -- A widow's farm -- If you stay in the middle of your suffering, you'll never find the edge of it -- Epilogue : the end in the end.

"From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a warm and candid memoir of grief, a deeply-felt tribute to her father, and a compulsively readable continuation of a brilliant series of books on her family. After her father's sudden death on holiday in Budapest, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather the loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. Travel Light, Move Fast is the unforgettable story of 'Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode,' a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability, to revel in promise rather than wallow in regret, and was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen altogether, all at once--or not at all. Now in the wake of his death, Fuller internalizes his lessons with clear eyes, and celebrates a man who swallowed life whole. In the days and months following her father's death she and her mother return to his farm with his ashes and contend with his overwhelming absence, recollecting her childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. Writing with 'reverent irreverence' of the rollicking grand misadventures of her mother and father, bursting with pandemonium and tragedy, Fuller takes to heart their insatiable appetite for life. Here is a story of joy, resilience, and vitality, from one of the finest memoirists of our time."--From publisher.

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