A review by iseefeelings
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Reading this book, one might feel that Joan Didion did not move on from her grief at all: rather, she was moving through it. It must have taken a lot of courage for her to relive both the good and the bad days, to be painfully aware that she was no longer under the same sky as her husband. It wrenched my heart to imagine myself in her position, frightfully aware that no one can escape the reality of losing their loved ones to death. It can happen at any moment. There is no magical way to get out of this. I hope she has found peace with her beloved.