read this! please!

joan didion- the year of magical thinking

it's getting some press now, deservedly, and it's absolutely incredible.

it's about the year her daughter goes into septic shock and her husband dies.

"We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss," she writes. "We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes."