I recently read Joan Didion’s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. As you probably know, it is her chronicle of the ways that grief disorders a person’s thinking, which she began writing after about a year had elapsed since her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died. The book is also a memorial to her marriage to Dunne and a celebration of their life together with their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, who was in and out of hospitals for the year after Dunne’s death and who would die shortly before the book itself was published. The Year of Magical Thinking Read more