WHEN LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT ENDS
When
life as you know it ends*
Excerpts:
How many of us
while giving an account of a day that turned on us without a warning have begun
its telling with the following lines: “It was a perfectly normal day. The sun
was bright and the sky blue and clear”? Whether it was 9/11 or 26/11, or deeply
personal narratives, normalcy is the default position at the time of their
retelling. Joan Didion’s bestseller, The
Year of Magical Thinking, reveals itself in different ways with each
rereading. “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to
dinner and life as you know it ends.”
*The Hindu, December
18, 2016: SHELF HELP
Review of
the book “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion
(Please use the link above to read the review)
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