The Year of Magical Thinking

My friend gave me a copy of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking after my father's death earlier this year.  I didn't know who Didion was before reading it.  It's a memoir that she wrote about the year following her husband's sudden death.  There are many aspects of Didion's life to which I cannot relate - but I think that anyone who has experienced grief can relate to the grief of another (even if it manifests in different ways - grief is unique to each of us).