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Growing up in Africa inspires a ‘very honest’ divorce memoir

Clip: 2/17/2015 | 6m 37s

Jeffrey Brown talks to Alexandra Fuller, author of "Leaving Before the Rains Come."

Alexandra Fuller’s childhood in Southern Africa was the inspiration for two past memoirs. In her third, “Leaving Before the Rains Come,” she writes about moving to the U.S. and the collapse of her decades-long marriage. Fuller joins Jeffrey Brown for a conversation.

02/17/2015 | Rating NR

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