The Year of Magical Thinking

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Good Books rating 4.48

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  • ID: 60
  • Added: 2025-08-30
  • Updated: 2025-08-30
  • Reviews: 3
Reviews


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  • For anyone dealing with loss and bereavement, this is a very cleansing read.
  • People at my company receive three days of bereavement leave. Three days.
  • These are people that can’t be replaced or “gotten over” in three days.


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  • A masterpiece in storytelling, one woman on-stage baring raw emotion and vulnerability.
  • An honest and unsparing depiction of mourning and a pain that must be looked at to be understood.
  • The Year Of Magical Thinking is a powerful and deeply affecting exploration of grief.


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  • The extraordinary thing about The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion's personal, journalistic detachment.
  • No matter how raw her pain, how intensely personal, the writing never loses clarity or precision.
  • The book offers a compelling and restrained examination of grief without sentimentality.