The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Life changes fast
Life changes in an instant
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends
So begins this wonderful book about grief. I'm not sure what I thought it would be about, maybe more about a composed, healed woman looking back at the pain. Most people seem whole at the end; it is so refreshing to hear from someone who is still experiencing her pain. It was so much more immediate and raw; compelling. She talks with frankness about the places her grief took her and how this affected her life. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it as a delve into raw emotions that leaves the reader not depressed, but with a renewed faith in love and the infinite amount of it there is to give and have.