Fi: A Memoir of My Son
Alexandra Fuller
In a disarming, devastating and blessedly funny memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old son, Alexandra Fuller recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it
Award History
0 wins · 1 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or AutobiographyMajor | 2025 | Finalist | Secondary source |
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01 Central figures
- Alexandra Fuller90%
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In a culture lacking instructions for grieving a child, painstaking grief becomes a wild “medicine” after the sudden loss of a son.
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