How We Got By

When your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Timescolumnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in thisgorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.Based on one of Feinberg and Rothmans columns in the New York Times, ';How We Got By: New Yorkers' Advice for Getting Through a Crisis,' How We Got Byis an ambitious journalistic undertaking rendered in an artful, collectible package. Each accompanied by one of Rothman's full-color illustrated portraits, these personal accounts touch on a wide variety of subjects, from money and business to relationships, family, trauma, and death. A window into the world of how others think, feel, and, ultimately, survive, How We Got By invitesus to remember our shared humanity as well as our truly extraordinary resilience.