The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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Monday, March 27 through Friday, April 7, 2006. Read by Jim Fleming.

This is an extraordinary book. It describes a year that began with her daughter in a coma and shortly after, her husband dead of a heart attack. Didion’s examination of love and loss is intensely personal but open to everyone.

(Knopf; ISBN-10: 140004314X)

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