"Several days before Christmas 2003\, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter\, Quintana\, fall i ll with what seemed at first flu\, then pneumonia\, then complete septic s hock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days la ter&mdash\;the night before New Year&rsquo\;s Eve&mdash\;the Dunnes were j ust sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory D unne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second\, this close\, sym biotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later\, their daugh ter pulled through. Two months after that\, arriving at LAX\, she collapse d and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relie ve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion&rsquo\; s attempt to m ake sense of the &ldquo\;weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed id ea I ever had about death\, about illness\, about marriage and children an d memory\, about the shallowness of sanity\, about life itself." ~ From th e Publisher
\n\nMeet at the flagpole\, the walk will begin at 9:30am sharp. Registration is required.
\nObtain copies of the titl e at the Library or as an ebook or a downloadable audiobook. For those who would like to purchase a copy of Th e Year of Magical Thinking\, please support our local independent boo kstore\, \;The Book Stall&n bsp\;at 811 Elm Street in Winnetka.
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