The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking begins on the evening that her husband, John Gregory Dunne died suddenly of a heart attack while eating supper. Didion describes her reactions to her husband's sudden death, with extensive flashbacks to earlier times in their marriage. She also describes the year she spent grieving, mourning, and sitting with her daughter in hospital critical care facilities.

The Year of Magical Thinking is a brief and moving account. Quintana Roo Dunne Michael died August 26, 2005.