Senior Center Book Club
Schedule
Wed Nov 06 2024 at 02:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
234 Kensington Rd, Berlin, CT, United States, Connecticut 06037 | Berlin, CT
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Register online: https://berlinpeck.org/events/2024-11-senior-center-book-club/Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
About the Book
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness… about marriage and children and memory… about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
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Where is it happening?
234 Kensington Rd, Berlin, CT, United States, Connecticut 06037Event Location & Nearby Stays:
