The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

National Bestseller From one of Americas iconic writers a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience a portrait of a marriageand a life in good times and badthat will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003 John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter Quintana fall ill with what seemed at first flu then pneumonia then complete septic shock. She was put into