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The Year of Magical Thinking (National Book Award Winner)

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Who are we without the people we love most? Acclaimed writer Didion garnered an huge new audience with this grief memoir, written in the wake of the death of her husband and hospitalization of their daughter.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writers

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Joan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explo...

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