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LegacyConnect's Blog – March 2009 Archive (2)
Book Review: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'
“You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” So begins Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, the National Book award winning memoir that chronicles the devastating aftermath of her husband’s sudden death of a heart-attack just months before their 40th anniversary. Compounding and confusing her grieving process is her daughter Quintana’s mysterious (and ultimately fatal)… Continue
Added by LegacyConnect on March 19, 2009 at 11:17am — No Comments
Book Review: 'The Mercy Papers'
Robin Romm’s mother was diagnosed with cancer the summer after Robin’s freshman year in college. Nine years later, Robin quit her graduate program at Berkeley to stay home with her dying mother. In The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, Romm recalls the end of her mother’s life, peppering the narrative with memories of earlier times – before her mother’s death was imminent.“It seemed to me that most books sought to close the wound, hurry it shut. But death… Continue
Added by LegacyConnect on March 5, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments
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