A review by sinvvas
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

5.0

Sometimes when you mourn you have to do so loudly and messily. Joan Didion taught me that through her grief. She lost both her only child and her husband of 40 years on the same day. Two people who have been in her life were suddenly gone in the blink of an eye. This book is both a primal cry about how unfair the world can be, and a somber process of grief, acceptance, and ultimately love for both yourself and the ones we leave behind. As a person who has experienced sudden grief, this is one of the most empathetic and cathartic books I have ever read. Joan Didion reminds us that it is okay to feel hurt and ugly emotions, as long as we treat ourselves with grace afterward.