Summary Of The Year Of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion
The book I decided to do my book review on was The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This was honestly a great book that I was even able to connect to on more of a personal level. There are many intersections of human development and social practice throughout this book. This book is a memoir based off of Didion’s life and the many challenges and obstacles she had to face in life. Didion starts off with dealing with her daughter Quintana being in the hospital and being in a coma because she was very ill with pneumonia and went into septic shock which put her in the coma. While her daughter was in a coma her husband, John died unexpectedly from a massive heart attack. Throughout this book you get a peek at Didion’s grieving process as
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Quintana start off being ill with pneumonia and on Christmas morning she went to the hospital and went into septic shock due to the pneumonia taking control over her lungs she went into a coma. Quintana did not wake up from her coma until January 2004. Once she was release the family decided to have the funeral for John. After that Quintana and her husband decided to move to Malibu, California to recuperate, but as soon as they landed in Los Angeles Quintana had a massive brain hemorrhage that had required emergency neurosurgery. Doctors had feared that she may not survive and if she did she would suffer from brain damage. Didion flew out to Los Angeles to be with her daughter. They ended being there for months until Quintana was stable and healthy enough to be transfer to a hospital in New York. During her time in Los Angeles Didion began to experience what she called in the book “the vortex effect.” This is a reaction where environmental triggers would unexpectedly set off emotional flashbacks of her life with John and Quintana. Didion tried to avoid landmarks that would remind her of happy times with her family she was brought into the vortex effect in the most unexpected times. Once Quintana was back in New York she began the slow process of recuperating which led Didion to try to resume her life once
Quintana start off being ill with pneumonia and on Christmas morning she went to the hospital and went into septic shock due to the pneumonia taking control over her lungs she went into a coma. Quintana did not wake up from her coma until January 2004. Once she was release the family decided to have the funeral for John. After that Quintana and her husband decided to move to Malibu, California to recuperate, but as soon as they landed in Los Angeles Quintana had a massive brain hemorrhage that had required emergency neurosurgery. Doctors had feared that she may not survive and if she did she would suffer from brain damage. Didion flew out to Los Angeles to be with her daughter. They ended being there for months until Quintana was stable and healthy enough to be transfer to a hospital in New York. During her time in Los Angeles Didion began to experience what she called in the book “the vortex effect.” This is a reaction where environmental triggers would unexpectedly set off emotional flashbacks of her life with John and Quintana. Didion tried to avoid landmarks that would remind her of happy times with her family she was brought into the vortex effect in the most unexpected times. Once Quintana was back in New York she began the slow process of recuperating which led Didion to try to resume her life once