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The Year of Magical Thinking

By Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking is an account of the year the writer spent after her husband’s sudden death after 40 years of marriage. Magical thinking, as Didion writes about it, refers to the belief that a loss or trauma can somehow still be averted or reversed. In one of the most poignant instances of her magical thinking, Didion recounts that she couldn’t part with her dead husband’s shoes, because she thought he might need them when he returned. Read More

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