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class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275500341" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2568271" data-workid="2568271" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Summary: A memoir of grief and remembrance of Joan Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne.<br><br>They had just arrived home after visiting their daughter Quintana, in intensive care fighting pneumonia and septic shock. Joan Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, were talking while he was enjoying a drink and she was preparing dinner. And then he wasn’t talking. She turned to find him slumped over the table, victim to a massive coronary called “the widow maker.” It was December 30, 2003.<br><br>In this memoir, begun in October of 2004, Didion recounts her grief journey over that first year beginning with the efforts of the paramedics, the trip to the hospital, the pronouncement of death, and receiving his effects, and returning to an empty apartment. Didion turns her gifts to describing one of the most difficult of human experiences:<br><br>“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”<br><br>She titles the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, reflecting a belief that somehow he could come back. She refrains from giving away his shoes because he will need them when he comes back. Obituaries disturb her because she fears she buried him alive. She replays the events of the night as if something different might have saved his life, yet he was likely gone from the moment he slumped over, as she eventually learns.<br><br>Drawing upon grief research, she chronicles her own descent into the kind of temporary insanity of grief. She struggles to finish a piece of writing because the two of them had always discussed each other’s writing and she’s waiting for that conversation that will not come. Later, when her daughter suffers a stroke in Los Angeles, she describes returning to the city in which she and John had once lived. and avoiding all the places that would awaken memories (“the vortex effect”) of him. She describes the look of “extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness” in the eyes of the bereaved and the memories that visit unannounced and her response:<br><br>“I wanted more than a night of memories and sighs.<br><br>I wanted to scream.<br><br>I wanted him back.”<br><br>Quintana’s serious condition offers a kind of diversion as she immerses herself in clinical materials and becomes her daughter’s advocate. Was this just a desperate effort to stave off further grief? To keep at bay the grief at the door? A mother’s love? Probably all three.<br><br>Yet she cannot help remembering. The birthday gift twenty-five days before he died. The trip to Paris John thought he must take or never go. Did he have a presentiment of his death? That is another theme, unresolved in the memoir.<br><br>Then there is the unending character of grief. It is not for a few days or weeks. Yet as the year ebbs to an end, she comes to some resolution to her “magical thinking.”<br><br>“I know why we try to keep the dead alive; we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.<br><br>“I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”<br><br>Most of all, Didion explores the special kind of grief of that comes of two people sharing many years together. Is this the price exacted for many years of shared love, shared memories, of lives intertwined? I’ve known the widower beside himself with grief, losing the partner of over sixty years. It’s most likely that one of us will bear this grief in my own marriage. Reading Didion’s unvarnished and quietly eloquent account alerts us to that. But it doesn’t prepare us. What can?<br><br>But for those who grieve, and who go through all the changes Didion experiences, she helps us understand that this is just what it is like. Sometimes it helps to know we are not alone when we find ourselves alone. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275500341" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275500341"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275500341" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275500341" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275500341"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/BobonBooks" target="_top">BobonBooks</a> | Nov 24, 2024 | <a href="/review/275500341"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274228851" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2568271" data-workid="2568271" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a valuable piece of writing on grief. In December 2003, her husband has a massive heart attack at the dinner table and dies. At the same time, their daughter is in ICU with pneumonia. Over the course of the next year, she goes through an emotional wringer, dealing with the grief and the health issues of her daughter. She tries to make sens of the emotions and thinking she is experiencing, by reference to her peer group, her parents' generation and reading. I was particularly struck by the book on grief etiquette and how that has changed. Some of what she reported I recognised from the loss of my father (the shock, the bliss of forgetting and the pain of remembering, being side swiped). There is little writing on the nature of grief in the modern age, when faith is not the support it once may have been and when death is kept out of sight; this feels to be a valuable contribution to the subject. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274228851" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274228851"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274228851" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274228851" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274228851"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Helenliz" target="_top">Helenliz</a> | Oct 28, 2024 | <a href="/review/274228851"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273664664" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2568271" data-workid="2568271" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>for some reason, i had not marked this as 'read' here on GR.<br><br>i read this novel when it was published and found it incredible. didion is such a sharp and eloquent writer and i appreciated that she opened herself, and her family, up by writing about this incredibly sad and difficult time. didion seemed quite analytical about it all too, which i found interesting. grief is such a murky and individual experience. i recall being very caught up in the plight of didion's daughter, quintana. it truly seems almost too much to bear. yet we all bear so much, every day - don't we? didion, in photos, always strikes me as so small. she has a look of physical frailty that belies her power and strength with the written word. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273664664" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273664664"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273664664" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273664664" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273664664"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/JuniperD" target="_top">JuniperD</a> | Oct 19, 2024 | <a href="/review/273664664"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_272477839" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2568271" data-workid="2568271" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>December 2003 was a terrible month for Didion; her daughter got pneumonia and went into septic shock at Christmas and was in a coma when her husband died of a heart attack just before New Year's Eve. The book chronicles her life during the next year with her daughter recovering and then relapsing with a brain hematoma. She tries to show what she experienced, particularly how anything familiar to her family's past (a street, a place, a name, an event) could set her brain off on a winding path of memories, making her lose all sense of current place. Interspersed are many research topics that she fanatically looked up at the rise of each medical event and studies on grieving. Her life was not anything like one I connected with but her feelings made a connection. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_272477839" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_272477839"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_272477839" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_272477839" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_272477839"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Linda-C1" target="_top">Linda-C1</a> | Sep 26, 2024 | <a href="/review/272477839"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_206766823" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2568271" data-workid="2568271" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078431.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Death happens to us all. What happens when your husband dies while one is making dinner. That is the situation that Joan Didion explores in this book. The emotions that she goes through from December 30, 2003 following is a poignant look how death affected Ms. Didion. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_206766823" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_206766823"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_206766823" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_206766823" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_206766823"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/foof2you" target="_top">foof2you</a> | Sep 21, 2024 | <a href="/review/206766823"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','2568271','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','2568271','',false, null, 'profile'); 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margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_abd41517" title="0.0 Stars" aria-title="0.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ></span></span><div id="brtext_9318" class="commentText">Essayistic and concise, seeking external points of comparison, trying to set her case in some wider context.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/KayCliff">KayCliff</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'9318', 'workid':'2568271'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New York Review of Books</span>, <span class="nowrap">Julian Barnes</span> <span rawdate="1302148800" class="nowrap">(Apr 7, 2011)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="9321" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_2721fbaf" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_9321" class="commentText"></div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/melmore">melmore</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'9321', 'workid':'2568271'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n01/michael-wood/his-shoes" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">London Review of Books</span>, <span class="nowrap">Michael Wood</span></a> (pay site) <span rawdate="1136437200" class="nowrap">(Jan 5, 2006)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="9320" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_6355e48c" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_9320" class="commentText">The book is, as promised, extraordinary. The Year of Magical Thinking is raw, brutal, compact, precise, immediate, literate, and, given the subject matter, astonishingly readable.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/melmore">melmore</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'9320', 'workid':'2568271'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2005/10/the_anatomy_of_grief.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Slate.com</span>, <span class="nowrap">Peter D. Kramer</span></a> <span rawdate="1129521600" class="nowrap">(Oct 17, 2005)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="9319" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_81efcd88" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_9319" class="commentText">Though the material is literally terrible, the writing is exhilarating and what unfolds resembles an adventure narrative: a forced expedition into those "cliffs of fall" identified by Hopkins.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/DorsVenabili">DorsVenabili</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'9319', 'workid':'2568271'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09pinsky.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Robert Pinsky</span></a> <span rawdate="1128830400" class="nowrap">(Oct 9, 2005)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="9322" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_5893ba5c" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_9322" class="commentText">The Year of Magical Thinking , though it spares nothing in describing Didion's confusion, grief and derangement, is a work of surpassing clarity and honesty. It may not provide "meaning" to her husband's death or her daughter's illness, but it describes their effects on her with unsparing candor. It was not written as a self-help handbook for the bereaved but as a journey into a place that none of us can fully imagine until we have been there.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/melmore">melmore</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'9322', 'workid':'2568271'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092901708.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Washinton Post</span>, <span class="nowrap">Jonathan Yardley</span></a> <span rawdate="1128225600" class="nowrap">(Oct 2, 2005)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'otherauthors', 'u_7e6af993', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Other authors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_7e6af993" style="display:block;"><div id="otherauthors_container"><p style="margin-top: 5px !important;"><a href="javascript:otherauthors_edit(2568271)">» Add other authors (9 possible)</a></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="otherauthor"><tr class="head"><td>Author name</td><td>Role</td><td>Type of author</td><td>Work?</td><td>Status</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/didionjoan">Joan Didion</a></td><td>—</td><td>primary author</td><td>all editions</td><td>calculated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/carusobarbara-2">Caruso, Barbara</a></td><td>Narrator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/jonkheerchristien">Jonkheer, Christien</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_57" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'relationships', 'u_2f257434', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Series and work relationships</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_2f257434" style="display:block;"><div id="seriesforwork_container"></div><div id="relationships_container"><h2>Has the adaptation</h2><div id="u_67af5ce4" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="8268399" href="/work/8268399">The Year of Magical Thinking {drama}</a> by <a data-authorid="didionjoan" href="/author/didionjoan">Joan Didion</a></span></div></div><h2>Has as a student's study guide</h2><div id="u_2cfd7ee0" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="19623738" href="/work/19623738">The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | Summary & Study Guide</a> by <a data-authorid="bookrags" href="/author/bookrags">BookRags</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_59" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'newaward', 'u_24842164', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Awards and Honors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_24842164" style="display:block;"><div id="newawardforwork_container"><h2>Awards</h2><div id="u_e28c5270" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/41/Audie-Award" class="" >Audie Award</a> (<a href="/award/41.5/Audie-Award-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/41.0.1605/Audie-Award-Biography%25252FMemoir">Biography/Memoir</a> – <a href="/award/41.0.0.2006/Audie-Award-2006">2006</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/678/The-Economist-Best-Books" class="" >The Economist Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/678.0.0.43556/The-Economist-Best-Books-2005-11">2005.11</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15713/Kanon-der-Gegenwart-Die-100-besten-B%C3%BCcher-des-21-Jahrhunderts-NZZ-ch" class="" >Kanon der Gegenwart: Die 100 besten Bücher des 21. Jahrhunderts (NZZ.ch)</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/238/National-Book-Award" class="" >National Book Award</a> (<a href="/award/238.1/National-Book-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/238.0.8/National-Book-Award-Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a> – <a href="/award/238.0.0.2005/National-Book-Award-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/371/National-Book-Critics-Circle-Award" class="" >National Book Critics Circle Award</a> (<a href="/award/371.5/National-Book-Critics-Circle-Award-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/371.0.1671/National-Book-Critics-Circle-Award-Autobiography%25252FMemoir">Autobiography/Memoir</a> – <a href="/award/371.0.0.2005/National-Book-Critics-Circle-Award-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1091/Prix-M%C3%A9dicis" class="" >Prix Médicis</a> (<a href="/award/1091.1/Prix-M%C3%A9dicis-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/1091.0.4146/Prix-M%C3%A9dicis-Essai">Essai</a> – <a href="/award/1091.0.0.2007/Prix-M%C3%A9dicis-2007">2007</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/76/Pulitzer-Prize" class="" >Pulitzer Prize</a> (<a href="/award/76.5/Pulitzer-Prize-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/76.0.2155/Pulitzer-Prize-Biography-or-Autobiography">Biography or Autobiography</a> – <a href="/award/76.0.0.2006/Pulitzer-Prize-2006">2006</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Distinctions</h2><div id="u_2d58a88e" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/232/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books" class="" >Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books</a> (<a href="/award/232.0.3235/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books-Arts-and-Literature">Arts and Literature</a> – <a href="/award/232.0.0.2005/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/229/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book" class="" >Christian Science Monitor Best Book</a> (<a href="/award/229.0.2696/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-Memoir">Memoir</a> – <a href="/award/229.0.0.2005/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/95/The-New-York-Times-Best-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >The New York Times Best Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/95.0.0.2005/The-New-York-Times-Best-Books-of-the-Year-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1/New-York-Times-bestseller" class="" >New York Times bestseller</a> (<a href="/award/1.0.8/New-York-Times-bestseller-Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a> – <a href="/award/1.0.0.2005/New-York-Times-bestseller-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/202/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/202.0.8/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a> – <a href="/award/202.0.0.2005/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/307/Village-Voice-Favorite-Books" class="" >Village Voice Favorite Books</a> (<a href="/award/307.0.0.2005/Village-Voice-Favorite-Books-2005">2005</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_c44ac773" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/389/The-100-best-books-of-the-21st-century-by-The-Guardian" class="" >The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/105/100-Books-to-Read-in-a-Lifetime" class="" >100 Books to Read in a Lifetime</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/679/100-Must-Read-Memoirs-by-Bookriot" class="" >100 Must-Read Memoirs by Bookriot</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/11/1000-Books-to-Read-Before-You-Die" class="" >1000 Books to Read Before You Die</a></div></div><div 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href="/award/212.0.23076/Books-of-the-Decade-The-50-books-that-defined-the-decade-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/498/The-Guardians-100-Best-Nonfiction-Books-of-All-Time" class="" >The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/100/Time-Magazines-Best-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/100.0.2253/Time-Magazines-Best-Books-of-the-Year-Non-fiction-4">Non-fiction, 4</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/361/UC-Berkeley-Summer-Reading-List" class="" >UC Berkeley Summer Reading List</a> (<a href="/award/361.0.0.2006/UC-Berkeley-Summer-Reading-List-2006">2006</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/643/Vultures-the-Best-100-Books-of-the-Century" class="" >Vulture's the Best 100 Books of the Century</a></div></div><div id="u_9e4cc6a2" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show 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class="qelcontent" id="u_b23d944d" style="display:block;"><div id="fwikiContainerTablediv"><table class="fwikiContainerTable ch1 " fn="inlineWikiItemsContent"> <tr> <td COLSPAN="2"> <div class="fwikiHint fwikiTopHint"><div class="fwikiWarningHint">You must <a href="/">log in</a> to edit Common Knowledge data.</div> For more help see the <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Common_Knowledge">Common Knowledge help page</a>. </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_canonicaltitle"></a>Canonical title</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_72c953ac' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='21' name='u_72c953ac' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'canonicaltitle' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Authoritative title for a work in the language of the site you are on' ><div class='fwikiItem divcanonicaltitle'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originaltitle"></a>Original title</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_480fc3e5' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='41' name='u_480fc3e5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originaltitle' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The original title in the original language' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginaltitle'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=The+year+of+magical+thinking&f=41&exact=1&type=1">The year of magical thinking</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_alternativetitles"></a>Alternative titles</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_fc1b38bb' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='42' name='u_fc1b38bb' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'alternativetitles' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Avoid titles already listed as the Canonical or Original titles as well as foreign-language titles available on the "Details" tab.' ><div class='fwikiItem divalternativetitles'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a 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itemNum='2568271' fieldType='3' name='u_e8029329' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Joan+Didion">Joan Didion</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/John+Gregory+Dunne">John Gregory Dunne</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Quintana+Roo+Dunne">Quintana Roo Dunne</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Dominique+Dunne">Dominique Dunne</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_8d5965cd' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='2' name='u_8d5965cd' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/New+York%2C+New+York%2C+USA">New York, New York, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Los+Angeles%2C+California%2C+USA">Los Angeles, California, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_f7ad8513' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='34' name='u_f7ad8513' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_57c6227e' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='37' name='u_57c6227e' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_ff74fb34' itemType='1' itemNum='2568271' fieldType='28' name='u_ff74fb34' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." 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