Portrait of a mother in Africa
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness By Alexandra Fuller Simon & Schuster, €18.90.
**Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness**
By Alexandra Fuller
Simon & Schuster, €18.90
The tree in the clunky title of Alexandra Fuller's new memoir is symbolic on many levels. Fuller's parents live near the tree, on the banks of the Zambezi river in Zambia, where they farm bananas and fish. According to local folklore, the tree has palliative properties: if troubled, ...