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The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
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bookshelves: bio-diary-memoir
recommended for: everyone in the west
status: Read in February, 2008

Fabulous. I think magical thinking is a normal reaction to losing a loved one. But Didion conveys her grief and these willful tricks of the mind with such lucidity and candor, and such sanity, that the story is exceptional.
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message 1: by Laura
07/26/2008 07:22PM

763670 Hi Sarah,
I am reading this right now. It's stunning.

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