The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
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.