THIS IS HOW YOU SAY GOODBYE
Book ID/图书代码： 06840012B58619
English Summary/英文概要： THIS IS HOW YOU SAY GOODBYE tells the deeply affecting story of Victoria Loustalot’s father and her relationship with him as seen through the frame of his illness, AIDS. As a child, Victoria would have done anything for her father in spite of, or perhaps because of, his illness. But when she was only ten years old, her father’s eight-year battle with AIDS culminated in his suicide. As Victoria got older, she had to leave her father behind and forge her own path, yet at the age of twenty-four she realized she could not keep him in the past forever. When she is three thousand miles from home in New York City, Victoria finally determines to face the past and make peace with her father’s choices and her own. Victoria sets out to see the three places she and her father had always wanted to visit together but never had: Angkor Wat, Cambodia; Stockholm, Sweden; and Paris, France.Along Victoria’s journey, she hauntingly recalls the years she spent with her father when he was her primary caregiver, including all the confusion, anger, hurt, and love she has felt over time. She pieces together the ways in which their lives were intertwined and yet also at odds不和, hoping that by the end, when she reaches Paris, she’ll have found some way to set them both free. Victoria’s innocence, anger, and strivings for peace and understanding are so very relatable and unputdownable. Her grace and vulnerability shine through her prose. With echoes of Jeannette Walls’s THE GLASS CASTLE, THIS IS HOW YOU SAY GOODBYE explores how children deal with the failures of a parent and painfully learn their own capabilities for independence and acceptance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 為何你決定如此道別 如今我終於了解踏上與父親約定但未盡的旅途
埋藏已久的痛苦再次浮現 雖痛 但也成長
Victoria Loustalot的爸爸在她兩歲時，不幸罹患了世紀之症－愛滋病。小小年紀的Victoria為了爸爸，盡自己一切的力量照顧他、幫助他，但爸爸還是在Victoria十歲的時候結束與病魔奮鬥的戰役，但他是以「親手了結生命」來做完結…。
Victoria學會將父親的悲劇深藏心底，專心長大，遠走他鄉到繁榮的紐約求發展。但在24歲時，Victoria突然了解她無法永遠將父親封印在過去的塵埃之中，她決定面對過去，走一趟她和爸爸曾經一起夢想去的地方：柬埔寨吳哥窟、瑞典斯德哥爾摩、法國巴黎。
旅途中，過去的記憶一一浮現，所有被她壓抑已久，在與父親相處時的種種情緒－迷惑、憤怒、心痛、以及深刻的父女之情。面對過去讓她慢慢同理父親的掙扎與痛苦，解開多年的心結，也重獲心靈的平靜。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Victoria Loustalot現年26歲，擔任記者及隨筆作家。她僅花了三年就拿到哥倫比亞大學(Columbia University)英文及創意寫作學士學位，之後任職於母校，擔任教職以及寫作助理，並於2010年取得藝術碩士學位。
Victoria Loustalot曾為《紐約客》(The New Yorker)撰寫每日文學部落格，作品刊登於各大報章雜誌，包括《紐約時報》(The New York Times)及《The Onion》等，同時她也在網路媒體上發表文章，包括AOL、iVillage、Women’s Wear Daily、《魅力》(Glamour Magazine)的部落格Smitten、Brides以及Crushable等。A 26-year-old journalist and essayist living in New York City, Victoria Loustalot earned her B.A. in English and creative writing from Columbia University after only 3 years of study. She was a writing fellow and teacher at Columbia and graduated with an M.F.A in 2010. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Onion as well as online for AOL, iVillage, Women’s Wear Daily, Glamour Magazine’s relationship blog “Smitten,” Brides, and the recently launched Crushable, among others. She also wrote The New Yorker’s daily literary blog, “The Book Bench,” in 2008 and 2009.
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