We went to our 3rd play of the Intiman season, The Year of Magical Thinking.
http://www.intiman.org/2009season/magical/
During the play I'm afraid Doug was less than thrilled. I don't think one woman shows, going over the drama of death and loss is really his cup of tea. Which is exactly why I'm so glad we bought season passes, we've gone to shows that we otherwise would not have been prompted to see. I'm specifically thinking about Othello, I'm ashamed to say Shakespeare is not really my thing and understood nothing the first half of the play but was engrossed by the second.
Here is a quick summary of the book
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
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."
Winner: National Book Award 2005.
