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Author Gisleson, Anne, author.

Title The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading / Anne Gisleson.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY GISLESON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. GISLESON, A.    Storage
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B GISLESON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-GISLESON GIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  976.3 GIS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B GISLESON ANNE G    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 260 pages ; 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 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.
Subject Gisleson, Anne.
Grief -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology) -- Biography.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
Books and reading -- Social aspects.
New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 0316393908
9780316393904
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