![]() ![]() The title of the book refers to magical thinking in the anthropological sense, thinking that if a person hopes for something enough or performs the right actions then an unavoidable event can be averted. ![]() Didion also incorporates medical and psychological research on grief and illness into the book. With each replay of the event, the focus on certain emotional and physical aspects of the experience shifts. The book follows Didion's reliving and reanalysis of her husband's death throughout the year following it, in addition to caring for Quintana. ![]() She had returned to Malibu, her childhood home, after learning of her father's death. ![]() During 2004 Quintana was again hospitalized after she fell and hit her head disembarking from a plane at LAX. Days before his death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael was hospitalized in New York with pneumonia which developed into septic shock she was still unconscious when her father died. The book recounts Didion's experiences of grief after Dunne's 2003 death. It won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction Īnd was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Published by Knopf in October 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking was immediately acclaimed as a classic book about mourning. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (1934–2021), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). ![]()
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