Title:
The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Physical Description:
260 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780316393904
Abstract:
A memoir of loss, friendship, and literature explores how the author and her husband, devastated by the deaths of family members and the loss of their home in Hurricane Katrina, established a reading group with friends who also endured difficult life setbacks.
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 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.
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Language:
English
