Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.


本書作者芭芭拉．艾倫瑞克是當代最重要的思想家之一，從小就接受科學家教育，現在則身兼作家、記者、社運人士等多職，為社會正義發聲。在本書中，作者講述了從小就開始追求宇宙與萬事萬物的「真理」，如：現在到底發生了什麼事？我們為何身在此處？作者在中年時期找到自己在年少輕狂時的日記，日記中記載著一件不曾向他人提及的奇異災難事件。這樣的「神秘體驗」，足以讓十分理性的無神論者艾倫瑞克崩潰。作者在本書中重建童年的點點滴滴，以現今成熟女性諷刺、博學的角度，來看待當初熱衷且難以釋懷的執著，而我們也都曾受過這些折磨。雖然這些事是作者個人的深刻體會，但涵蓋範圍卻非常廣闊：這是一本有深度的回憶錄，也充滿對科學、宗教與人類本身的深刻省思。艾倫瑞克結合嚴謹的知識與無限的想像力，創作出貨真價實的文學瑰寶，帶給讀者許多樂趣與驚奇。