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The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

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First published: 2005
Pages: 178

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Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking is a poetic memoir of grief about love and loss. Didion looks back on the poignant death of her husband, and the bitter-sweet sickness of her daughter. This book is a poignant look at the human spirit and how it’s written with elegance and honesty.

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Joan Didion

Reported California in the late sixties without ever pretending to be a neutral instrument. Slouching Towards Bethlehem watched the counterculture up close and declined to be charmed by it, and The White Album opens by saying we tell ourselves stories in order to live, which is quoted constantly and almost always as though she meant it approvingly.