The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion · 2005 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Modern / American · Contemporary

On 30 December 2003 the author's husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack at their dinner table while their daughter lay in a coma in hospital. The book follows the following year as she reads the clinical literature, keeps rituals, and half-believes he may return. A memoir of bereavement and a standard text on grief, written as a record of the year it covers.

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