FI, a memoir of my son

264pp., paperback, London, 2024

Also published in the USA in 2024.

Alexandra Fuller's 21 year old son, Fi, died in his sleep in 2018.

"Fuller is sagacious and perspicacious. She is a sublime writer. In the hands of another memoirist, the story of Fi might be unbearably sad, but this book is a mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother’s love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss - surviving life.”  David Sheff, New York Times

“Galvanic ... Fi embodies a paradox: It is a seductive read about unrelenting agony. Self-effacing, wise and dry, the author’s style may be described as ‘frenetic lyric’: The prose hurries as if it, too, was breathless to reach some finish line ... [Fuller] emerges, if not healed, then a mother who is finally able to answer the only pressing question now: ‘Will we make it?’ Her answer is oblique but empathetic. The object the reader holds is the way a writer says yes.” Melissa H. Pierson, Wall Street Journal

Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight (winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize) and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until The Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times. She lives in Idaho.