THE MAP OF ENOUGH: ONE WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR PLACE
Book ID/图书代码： 03371013B66314
English Summary/英文概要： Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global woman from nowhere. But, on the verge of turning thirty years old, everything changed.
Molly and her fiancé Chris suddenly move to 107 acres in Montana, land her family owns but rarely visits, with the idea of staying for only a year. Surrounded by tall grass, deep woods, and the presence of predators, the young couple starts the challenging and often messy process of building a traditional Mongolian yurt from scratch. They finally finish just on the cusp of winter, in a below-zero degree snowstorm. For Molly it is her first real home, yet a nomadic one, this one concession meant to be dissembled and moved at will.
Yurt-life gives her rare exposure to nature, to the elements, to the wildlife all around them. It also feels contrary to the modern world, and this triggers in Molly an exploration of what home means to the emergent generation. In today’s age, has globalization and technology taught us that something better, the next best thing, is always out there? How does any young adult establish roots, and how do we decide what kind of life we want to lead? How much, ever, is enough?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 茉莉•卡洛•梅从小在一个游牧民族家庭中长大，他们对自己的国际敏感性而感到深深的自豪，这是一个从来都不会在同一个地方呆太久甚至定居的民族。在游历异国他乡的过程中，茉莉长大了，和她的父亲和祖父一样，她对于自己身为一名全球女性，却又不属于任何一个国度的身份感到迷恋不已。然而当三十大关逼近，一切都发生了改变。
茉莉与未婚夫克里斯突然搬到了蒙大拿的已出107英亩的田产里，那里是她家族的所有财产，但却鲜有人前往，他们计划在那里呆上一年。茂密的草丛与幽深的树林包围着他们，并伴随着时而出现的野兽，这对年轻的情侣开始了一场浩大同时极具挑战性的工程：就地建造一座传统的蒙古包。在冬日即将来临之际，在一场温度低至零下的暴风雪中，他们终于完成了蒙古包的搭建。对茉莉而言，这是她生平的第一个家，尽管仍旧是游牧式的，但这种让步其实只不过是一种掩饰，为了更好的随心而动。
蒙古包的生活使得茉莉鲜少能够亲自自然，能够接触各种元素以及周围的野生动物。这还让她感觉自己过着与现代世界截然相反的生活，并触发了茉莉渴望去探索：对于我们这淹没的一代，家究竟意味着什么？在当今的时代中，全球化和信息是否教会了我们更好的东西，乃至是最棒的东西其实一直都在那里，从未变过？年轻一代该如何寻根，我们又将如何决定何为自己想要的生活？而要达到何种程度，又才是足够的？（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“在这部令人印象深刻的初部回忆录作品中，自称是“世界女性”的作者将为我们记录下她的寻找家园之旅。梅如诗如画般散发着光辉的文字让一切显得明晰起来：旷野之风、土壤的霜冻与融雪、青草的芳香以及孕育着嫩枝与骨朵的小树。—最重要的是，她自己的深刻的转变。” —Kirkus Starred Review
“是否有浪人可以毫无停滞的学会停留？是否一名从小便未接受任何生存训练的女性能够学会建造她自己的庇护之地？劈柴与种植？是否有可能一名英特网的浏览者沉迷于电子的世界无法自拔？她是否能够学会真实的对待自己的生活，而不会留恋他处？茉莉•卡洛•梅用她宛如四月早晨般真挚与清澈的文字为我们道来与解释这一系列的问题。她小心翼翼的对待这那些来之不易的答案，并欢迎着我们任何一个人用全新的经历来提出新的见解。” —斯科特•罗素•桑德斯，著有 Earth Works: New & Selected Essays.
“In an impressive debut memoir, a self-proclaimed "Woman of the World" chronicles her journey to find a home. May joins the ranks of Gretel Ehrlich and Annie Proulx, celebrants of sagebrush, big skies, and journeys of self-discovery… May’s poetic, gleaming prose makes palpable the wildness and wind, freezing and thawing earth, delicate fragrances of grass and budding trees—and her own profound transformation.” —Kirkus Starred Review
“Could a wanderer learn to stay put without stagnating? Could a woman brought up without survival skills learn to build her own shelter, split firewood, grow food? Could a browser of the Internet keep from drowning in the electronic sea of possibilities? Could she learn to be fully present to her life without hankering to be elsewhere? Molly Caro May tackles all these questions, and more, in prose as candid and lucid as an April morning. She holds the hard-won answers lightly, open to correction from fresh experience.” —Scott Russell Sanders, Earth Works: New & Selected Essays.
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