The Year of Magical Thinking (Audiobook)

from ilovebooksdlk

This book has earned a place on my top five list. In her memoir, Joan Didion captures the year that followed her husband's sudden, unexpected death. She depicts the raw experience of grief so authentically, that the book may be appreciated in unique ways by those who have lost someone they deeply...

from Crazymamie

"Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.....Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the ...

from MarianV

I waited almost 6 months after my husband's passing which was almost 1 year & 1/2 after the sudden passing of our daughter before I read Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking." The book had been mentioned several times on a grief site to which I belonged. Those members who read it seemed to fin...

from ProfH

Easily the best work I've ever read by Didion. Some of her quirks are there to delight or frustrate familiar readers, but unlike much of her writing—this isn't a detached, vapid, all action-off-page kind of work. This work clearly, often beautifully, shows how the mind operates in times of grief,...

from mhgatti

Just days after Didion and her husband, both novelists, began to cope with their daughter's sudden coma (brought on by a mysterious illness), Didion's husband died of a heart attack. Didion documents the first year without her husband (the "magical thinking" being the illogical belief that he mig...