Winner of Best Bio/Memoir 2006 is a memorable intimate look inside loss and grief.You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.On Dec 30,2003, Joan Didion and her husband, Novelist John Dunne visited their daughter in the hospital, where she lay in a coma. At home that night, joan was mixing the salad when her husband suffered a massive fafal heart attack. This memoir is her attempt to find meaning in the year that followed.

Having suffered grief myself,observed it many times as a nurse and learning from seminars and workshops on grief, I was curious about this book.Reading it taught me so much about the nature of love and grief in an open honest way, like really getting inside someone else's experience. A gem of a book. I don't know if I can release it but I feel many people should read this.

Reserved for my birthday buddy

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In the mail to my Birthday RABCK buddy VeganMedusa.

Thanks kobie03! This sounds rather traumatising but I've heard good things about it so I look forward to reading it.

Wow, what a year. Well, I'm the kind of person who can't read about a heart attack without my heart feeling funny, so I didn't enjoy hearing all the details. But once I got past that, it was an interesting and enjoyable read.
Now reserved for livrecache for the BO Southern Cross exchange.

Posted to livrecache.

Received safely. From my wishlist, and part of the October Southern Cross Exchange. Thanks so much, Veganmedusa. It's a book I want to read, as something very similar happened to my best friend's husband last Christmas, making me realise how close death is to all of us.

I've unpacked my final box of books, and found this, which has been due to Tantan for months. I read most of of last night. I found it quite disturbing. I've tended to shy away from expostions of grief and mourning, but I'm glad I've read this one.
I shall post it to Tantan tomorrow.

On its way to Tantan. Actually posted yesterday.

Received today, and it's going on to Mt TBR. Many thanks!

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