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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 2005
Pages
Pages 230

A writer's husband collapses and dies at the dinner table one night, and for a year she catalogues the strange, irrational hopes of grief, unable to give away his shoes in case he needs them to come back.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

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