The Year of Magical Thinking
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What’s it about?
After her husband's sudden death, Joan Didion chronicles the year she spent trapped in a primitive, irrational hope that he might return, exploring the strange geography of grief.
You’ll learn
- Grief dismantles rational thought
- Magical thinking is a survival instinct
- Memory reshapes the lost loved one
- Survival is its own kind of grace