New Read: The Year of Magical Thinking

Guido picked the new read for this round: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking by American writer, renowned as a journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist Joan Didion.

The Year of Magical Thinking was published October 4, 2005, and chronicles the year following her husband's death (2003), during which their daughter, Quintana, was also gravely ill. Although during the period of the book their daughter recovered, she died in August of 2005 due to complications from acute pancreatitis.

In November 2005, it won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

Here's a review by the New York Times.