The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Didion’s husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma. This book is a memoir of Dunne’s death, Quintana’s illness, and Didion’s efforts to make sense of a time when nothing made sense. -from the New Yorker editorial review
This book is a memoir, written from a deeply personal and real place, and the brilliance of Joan Didion’s writing is undeniable. Unfortunately/fortunately I could find no personal connection to the story of grief and loss so I truly felt like I was on the outside looking in, knowing full well from the beginning that I would not form an attachment.
