An Engrossing and haunting tale of love, godliness, hate, war, and survival, Scribbling the Cat is the story of Alexandra Fuller's unusual friendship with "K", a strangely charismatic white African and Rhodesian War veteran. With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her critical acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller recounts the journey she makes with K into the lands that hold the scars of their war, from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and into Mozambique. Driven by memories, they venture, in this modern-day Heart of Darkness, deeper into the countries' remote bush, where they encounter other veterans and survivors, and confront the demon of K's past, a violent war marked by racial strife, jungle battles, torture, and the murdering of innocent civilians.
Editorial Reviews
"One of the ten best writers of the last decade." --Los Angeles Times
"[Scribbling the Cat] is no more a simple profile of an ex-soldier than Fuller's first book, the acclaimed bestseller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, was merely a memoir of growing up....The story catches fire." --Newsweek
"Scribbling the Cat defines easy definition....[a] wild-hearted beauty of a book." --O, The Oprah Magazine
About the Author
Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969 and in 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country’s civil war in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. Fuller’s first book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, a finalist for the GuardianFirst Book Award, and the Book Sense Best Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2002. Fuller lives in Wyoming and has two children.
