The FiFi Report 106

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
This book has had rave reviews and it is a must read. Warning : it’s a really sad story. “In December 2003 two terrible things happened to writer Joan Didion: her only child, Quintana, married months earlier, was hospitalized in a coma, and five days later her husband, John Gregory Dunne, died “in the living room of our apartment in New York [after] a sudden massive coronary event” just as he and Didion were about to have dinner. For more than a year, Didion’s life was completely taken over by these events; The Year of Magical Thinking is the story of that year. A heartbreaking footnote: Six weeks ago, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael died in New York City. She was 39 years old. Her mother decided, properly, not to alter this book. “It’s finished,” she said.
$16 http://www.amazon.com/Publisher: Knopf (October 4, 2005)