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Memoirist and philosopher seeker

Alexandra Fuller: Memoirist and philosopher seeker

Writer Alexandra Fuller has lived in Wyoming since 1994, but hasn’t been able to shake Africa, where she grew up with a larger-than-life mother on a struggling farm surrounded by land mines and trigger-happy rebels. She reads from her second memoir, “Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgetfulness,” at Porter Square Books this Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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