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The Year of Magical Thinking, authored by Joan Didion, is a keenly poignant and honest memoir of the author’s husband who passed away after a cardiac arrest. It was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Summary of the Book Didion dearly remembers her marriage, the good and the bad times that she and her husband John Gregory Dunne went through together. The book is referred to as a classic book on mourning. The Year of Magical Thinking won Joan the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and made it the finals of National Book Critics Circle as well as the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography. When John died from a severe cardiac arrest, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael was battling pneumonia in a New York hospital. She could not even make it to her own father’s funeral as she was unconscious the whole time. This was in the year 2003. In 2004, Quintana was hospitalized again due to bleeding in her brain which made her collapse. This book moves you immensely as it evokes a keen melancholy after reading. About Joan Didion Joan Didion was born in California, USA. She is a famous American novelist, memoirist and essayist. Her Literary Journalism has been widely commended. She is best known for her engaging articulation of the most complex human emotions. Some of the best books penned by Joan Didion are Slouching towards Bethlehem, The Last Think We Wanted, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction, Where I was from and The White Album.