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Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love
Marissa Moss
Red Wheel, Weiser
May 2017
176pp
書籍編號:
03-13751
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● 內文簡介

★榮獲2018年Anne and Robert Cowan Writer’s Prize

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★美國亞馬遜讀者五星好評

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「我們總以為,還會有下一次,卻在渾然不覺中,經歷了最後一次。」

這本書講述一個愛與失去的真實而強烈的個人故事:一位婦女如何應對家庭中一場災難性疾病所帶來的毀滅性影響。

運用強而有力的文字和插圖達到鮮明的效果,屢獲殊榮的童書作者Marissa Moss講述她、她的丈夫和她的三個年幼兒子如何努力維持自我意識作為一個家庭的完整,以及他們如何在大地在腳下移動仍繼續日常生活的故事。

作者的丈夫哈維是一名大學教授,熱愛家庭,卻意外診斷出患有肌萎縮側索硬化症。疾病來得快,作者必須忙於照顧哈維,同時努力讓年幼的孩子們盡可能保持正常生活。不到七個月的時間,疾病奪走了她的丈夫、孩子的父親和最好的朋友。

這不是一個關於絕症的救贖力量的故事,而是一個關於堅韌的故事,講述一個家庭如何從失去親人的可怕中倖存,並不斷成長。這是一個悲傷的故事,但是作者行文充滿力量,帶來正向的情感。

《Last Things》不僅揭開家庭的牢固紐帶和它們如何支持人們度過不可能的情況,還有面對逆境、度過逆境並治癒逆境的能力。即使棘手地面對死亡的問題、如何與臨終者一起生活,也要懂得管理痛苦和恐懼,讓病人走到最後。

這本書提供了一個強有力的實例,述說人們面對這種感覺的故事,以及如何穿越黑暗走向光明。

 

● 作者簡介

Marissa Moss,美國作家、插畫師,先後畢業於加州大學伯克利分校和加州藝術學院。29歲時出版第一本童書作品,至今作品包括《The Woman Who Split the Aton》、《Amelia Writes Again》、《Barbed Wire Baseball》、《Mira’s Diary》系列和《Daphne’s Diary of Disasters》系列等。

 

● 媒體報導

"Before reading Marissa Moss' Last Things I was unaware of how profoundly moved I could be by a graphic novel. With her gentle touch and brave honest voice, we experience how completely one's life and expectations be changed with a single devastating diagnosis. "──Luisa Smith, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA



"A gripping portrayal of how devastating ALS can be, but also a powerful example of resilience and hope."──Dr. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, neurologist, ALS clinic, UCSF



"Last Things is one of the most amazingly poignant and honest memoirs - graphic or otherwise -- I've ever encountered. This book - which I read in one insatiable sitting -- tore my heart in two. Moss handles the material with such a delicate sensibility, both with her drawings and her text, I couldn't help but let her carry me along on her journey of love and loss."──Katie Hafner, contributing writer to the New York Times and author of Mother, Daughter, Me: A Memoir



"This journey is one that we rarely speak about, but it absolutely needs to be told. Marissa's messages to all of us are powerful, profound and touching as she navigates the death of her husband. I feel honored to be part of it."──tuart Kelman, Founding Rabbi, Congregation Netivot Shalom



"This is a very brave and beautifully drawn account. Anyone coping with the loss of a spouse is going to benefit - and any reader can relate to the family dynamics, the stress of caregiving, and the crisis of a terminal disease."──Eleanor Vincent, author of Swimming with Maya: A Mother's Story