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The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading / Anne Gisleson. by Gisleson, Anne. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Call #: 028.8 G533f Subjects Gisleson, Anne.   Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.   Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.   Books and reading -- Social aspects.   Grief -- Biography.   Loss (Psychology) -- Biography.   New Orleans (La.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780316393904 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  260 p. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260). Contents:  January: All is vanity -- February: World of stone -- March: The belly of the whale -- April: The last suffer; or, The way of the crisis (via dolorosa) -- May: The dark wood -- June: Voices over water -- July: The least dead among us -- August: The metaphysical hangover -- September: The walled city -- October: The unwalled city -- November: Nineveh -- December: Sharing bread -- New Year's Eve: Tanks versus chickens. Summary:  A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief. 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 childrearing, jobs lost or gained, financial insecurities or unexpected windfalls. Together these resilient New Orleanians formed what they called the Existential Crisis Reading Group, 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, gatherings that increasingly fortified Anne and helped her blaze a trail out of her well-worn grief. 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. Anne Gisleson teaches at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 028.8 G533f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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