Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief: "Moving and complete and very much worth reading" (The New York Times Book Review).

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 ...