The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading-悲观主义者

作者:Gisleson Anne

书名：The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading《悲观主义者：我们思考、饮酒、悲伤和阅读的一年》  

中文简介：飓风带走了Anne Gisleson的双胞胎妹妹，癌症带走了她心爱的爸爸。在遇到丈夫Brad之前，Brad也有自己的创伤。Anne问：“面对亲人的离世和病痛的威胁，我们如何继续前行?”

英文简介：Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner and the mother of his son to cancer in her young thirties. "How do we keep moving forward," Anne asks, "amid all this loss and threat?" The answer: "We do it together." 

Anne and Brad, in the midst of forging their happiness, found that their friends had been suffering their own losses and crises as well: loved ones gone, rocky marriages, tricky child-rearing, jobs lost or gained, financial insecurities or unexpected windfalls. Together these resilient New Orleanians formed what they called the Existential Crisis Reading Group, which they jokingly dubbed "The Futilitarians." From Epicurus to Tolstoy, from Cheever to Amis to Lispector, each month they read and talked about identity, parenting, love, mortality, and life in post-Katrina New Orleans,

In the year after her father's death, these living-room gatherings provided a sustenance Anne craved, fortifying her and helping her blaze a trail out of her well-worn grief. More than that, this fellowship allowed her finally to commune with her sisters on the page, and to tell the story of her family that had remained long untold. Written with wisdom, soul, and a playful sense of humor, The Futilitarians is a guide to living curiously and fully, and a testament to the way that even from the toughest soil of sorrow, beauty and wonder can bloom.