Sarah Day grapples with grief as Joan Didion in American Players Theatre's "The Year of Magical Thinking"

Jennifer A. Smith
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:47:22 -0000

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends," writes Joan Didion in her arresting 2005 memoir, "The Year of Magical Thinking". She returns to these phrases over and over throughout the book, as if by repeating them she can ultimately accept them. Through plain yet penetrating language, Didion explores both the rawness and the very ordinariness of grief.