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Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller

This is the third memoir by Alexandra Fuller, who was raised on farms in post-colonial southeastern Africa by eccentric British parents. She marries an American adventurer and begins a new life as a wife and mother in suburban Wyoming. Having thoroughly explored her family's background in her previous work, this one belongs to her, and it is no less absorbing. With take-no-prisoners honesty and a gift for the telling detail, she explores her inner landscape—how her ex-pat heritage influenced her choices for better or worse—and the result is a brave portrayal of the costs of coming into her own life.

—Maureen of Breakwater Books, Guilford