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03951aam a2200529Ii 4500 001 736202428C7F11E7B829554C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170829010102 008 161209t20172017nyu b 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9780316393904 020 $a 0316393908 035 $a (OCoLC)965766497 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d PLS $d GK8 $d SINLB $d FM0 $d CZA $d BUR $d IOU $d SILO 050 14 $a CT275.G463 $b A3 2017 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 082 04 $a 028.8/0922 $2 23 100 1 $a Gisleson, Anne, $e author. 245 14 $a The Futilitarians : $b our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading / $c Anne Gisleson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Little, Brown and Company, $c 2017. 300 $a 260 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260). 505 0 $a 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 all of 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. 520 $a "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, been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner--the mother of his son--to cancer in her early 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."--Jacket. 600 10 $a Gisleson, Anne. 650 0 $a Grief $v Biography. 650 0 $a Loss (Psychology) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Book clubs (Discussion groups) $z New Orleans. $z New Orleans. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Bibliotherapy. 651 0 $a New Orleans (La.) $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 11 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014305.0 952 $l BEPA251 $d 20231028013227.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013200.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054533.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204090031.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110071924.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717034220.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006110937.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20171212021929.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20170902010855.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170829010543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=736202428C7F11E7B829554C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search