The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan DidionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER From one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriageand a life, in good times and badthat will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what

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they will go back indoors

and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution

From the author of the bestseller He's Just Not That Into You

he remains an inspiring role model to those who have yet to defeat their own demons

" — Nature Magazine

puts you on the streets

arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back

like so many strange stories

She is renowned for her fierce intelligence

He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades

Of our many childhood mysteries