The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Moir

This happened on Decber 30, 2003. That may se a while ago but it won't when it happens to you…

Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on fe support. Days later – the night before New Year’s Eve – the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic Artnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of ain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to reeve a massive hatoma.

This powerf book is Didion's ‘attpt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness…about marriage and children and mory…about the shallowness of sanity, about fe itself.