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This is a powerful memoir of grief, written about the year following Didion's husband's very sudden death, and the ongoing serious illness of their only daughter. Didion tries to understand her experience and responses to these events with research (about her husband, his illness, and grieving), thr...
I liked this book well enough, but I was a little let down. I guess I was expecting more on how she handled the passing of her husband. There was a lot of research on grief and excerpts from various novels with some medical terms thrown in. It just felt a little disjointed. She also puts in a ton of...
Re-reading this as a way to cope on w/ my own grief. After all,something did die, someone's love. And the pain it caused me is as painful as someone's death.
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