{"product_id":"fi-a-memoir-of-my-son","title":"Fi: A Memoir of My Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the bestselling memoirist of \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Truly extraordinary' \u003c\/b\u003eHELEN MACDONALD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss - surviving life'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's midsummer 2018, and Alexandra Fuller is about to turn fifty, but feels like her life is coming apart. She vows to get herself back on an even keel. And then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo stranger to loss - young siblings, a parent, her home country of Zimbabwe - Alexandra is nonetheless levelled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters. From a sheep waggon in the mountains of Wyoming to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, she embarks on a journey up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains, trying to find out how to grieve herself whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'For anyone who's ever loved and lost, or ever will; in short, a book for us all\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A profound and gripping memoir'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages | Published July 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63926742614365,"sku":"9781529931624","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781529931624.jpg?v=1774005204","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/fi-a-memoir-of-my-son","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}