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Didion's The Year Of Magical Thinking

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Didion 's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking examine the period of grief following the death of a loved one. The book base upon the death of Didion 's husband, John Gregory Dunne, who dies in December 2003.At that time, their daughter, Quintana were hospitalized for a serious infection following a bout with the flu. Didion and Dunne just returned from visiting their daughter at the hospital when Dunne suffer a fatal heart attack. The memoir describe Didionn 's experiences and thoughts after her husband 's heart attack and thereby offered the reader a compelling account of what kind of "magical" thinking often occur during the grieving
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