送花人（鲁西迪妻子自传） The Flower Bearers

基本信息

ISBN：9780593730201

Published on：Jan 20, 2026

Published by：Random House

Pages：336

Dimensions：5-1/2 x 8-1/4

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书籍简介

“这本独特的回忆录令我震惊。瑞秋·伊丽莎·格里菲斯以诗人般的精准笔触，描绘了两场交织在一起的悲剧，鲜有人能亲身经历，更遑论以如此清醒坦诚的视角将其书写下来。”——玛丽·卡尔，《纽约时报》畅销书《骗子俱乐部》作者

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2021年9月24日，瑞秋·伊丽莎·格里菲斯与小说家萨尔曼·鲁西迪喜结连理。就在同一天，远在数百英里之外，格里菲斯亲密的朋友和如同姐妹般的诗人卡米拉·艾莎·穆恩突然离世，她原本将在婚礼上致辞。十一个月后，格里菲斯一边努力重拾新婚生活的幸福，一边承受着心碎的痛苦和深沉的爱，一场残酷的袭击几乎夺去了她丈夫的生命。随着创伤的不断叠加，格里菲斯意识到，为了走出悲痛，她不仅需要哀悼她的朋友，还需要哀悼婚礼当天那个她自己——那个也在那一天逝去的女人。

在重建自我的过程中，格里菲斯记录了她与穆恩的友谊，以及她们自莎拉·劳伦斯学院相遇以来的十七年时光。她们共同拥抱文学先驱——露西尔·克利夫顿、托妮·莫里森、爱丽丝·沃克等等——并努力拥抱自己作为诗人、艺术家和黑人女性的身份。除了这段牢不可破的友谊，格里菲斯还讲述了她与拉什迪的友谊，他们共同面对的挑战以及那份始终如一的坚定不移的爱。

在《送花人》中，格里菲斯以优雅而真诚的笔触描绘了两段意义非凡的友谊，记录了敞开心扉去爱所带来的美好与痛苦。

“This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet’s precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths’ closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day.

In the process of rebuilding a self, Griffiths chronicles her friendship with Moon, the seventeen years since their meeting at Sarah Lawrence College. Together, they embraced their literary foremothers—Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, to name a few—and fought to embrace themselves as poets, artists, and Black women. Alongside this unbreakable bond, Griffiths weaves the story of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the unshakeable devotion that endures.

In The Flower Bearers, Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.

作者简介

瑞秋·伊丽莎·格里菲斯是一位诗人、视觉艺术家和小说家。她曾荣获赫斯顿/赖特基金会遗产奖和帕特森诗歌奖，并入围美国有色人种协进会形象奖决赛。格里菲斯还获得过众多机构的奖学金，包括凯夫·卡内姆基金会、金比里奥艺术中心、普罗温斯敦美术工作中心、罗伯特·劳森伯格基金会和亚多艺术中心。她的作品曾发表于《纽约时报》、《纽约客》、《锡屋》等刊物。她的处女作小说《承诺》荣获《科克斯书评》和芝加哥公共图书馆年度最佳图书奖。

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, and other publications. Her debut novel, Promise, was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year.