The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

On an ordinary evening in 2003, Joan Didion’s husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly at their dinner table. Days earlier, their daughter had fallen gravely ill. What follows is not a dramatic memoir of grief, but something quieter and more forensic.

Didion examines the year after his death with astounding clear eyed precision. She tracks her own thinking...the irrational loops, the bargaining, the refusal to give away his shoes because he might need them. She names the state she inhabits: magical thinking. This is a remakable and very special book.

She is not performing grief. She is dissecting it.

A book about love, memory, shock, and the way the mind protects itself when reality becomes unbearable.

For readers drawn to elegant, unsentimental writing about loss and to prose that feels exact rather than indulgent.

Format: Hardbackback 
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Page count: 227
ISBN: 9781400043149
Origin: USA
Condition: WELL LOVED