PositiveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWhen describing Joan Didion's writing style, words such as 'spare,' 'detached' and 'analytical' come to mind. Thus it's a surprise that her powerful new memoir moves us with the raw emotion of its subject — mourning — as Didion probes her most personal feelings about a devastating year ... As part of the grieving process, Didion takes her late father's advice — 'Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature' — and researches grief from medical and literary perspectives, sharing passages from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems, Euripides' Alcestis and C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed.
