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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion's stunning and heartbreaking meditation on grief

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kyra maya phillips
@thisiskyramaya · reader, writer, listener
Written in the only way Didion really knows how: hauntingly. This is a difficult book to get through, not because of the way in which it is written (it is a joy to travel through her sentences), but rather because of its topic. Written after her husband’s sudden death, The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion’s memoir recounting how she handled the loss of her… See more
Chad Hall
@therealchadhall · writer/artist/bookworm/hermit
Such a moving and honest book, from the cover with its four blue letters spelling out JOHN (the name of her husband), to this haunting sentence; "I needed to be alone so that he could come back."