A Griever’s Review of “The Year of Magical Thinking”
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6 min readOct 1, 2019
Joan Didion wrote The Year of Magical Thinking in 88 days. The book chronicles the first year after the death of Ms. Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne. The couple had been married for 39 years when Dunne had a massive heart attack at the dinner table as Didion was mixing the salad.
The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005 and was also a finalist…
