The Year Of Magical Thinking
A portrait of a marriage and a life - in good and bad times - from one of America's most iconic writers that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child. A stunning work of honesty and passion. John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, became ill a few days before Christmas in 2003. They first thought it was the flu, then pneumonia, and finally septic shock.
She was placed in an induced coma and on life support. The Dunnes were sitting down to dinner the night before New Year's Eve after visiting the hospital when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. This close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years ended in an instant. Their daughter survived four weeks later. Two months later, she collapsed at LAX airport and required six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
The end result is an exploration of a deeply personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage and a life in good and bad times.
The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion's attempt to make sense of "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness... about marriage and children and memory... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself". It is one of the best books every woman should read in their 40s.
Author: Joan Didion
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