This evoked several emotions and widen my perspectives. Meaningful read.

Great insight on the grieving process. As someone who lost his mom less than a year ago I found myself connecting with almost everything she wrote.

This book, with its captivating language and gripping storyline, delivers eloquently the tragedy that is the loss of a loved one. Didion, a remarkable writer, uses this book as a way to cope with the loss of her husband. Small in page length, yet intense it subject matter. Absolutely brilliant.

This is the first Didion book I have read and I look forward to reading more. While I knew the outcome for both John and Q (I had seen the documentary), I was riveted by her account of them. For me, her matter-of-fact writing style underscored the impossible task of describing such an immense loss and its aftermath. Much like parenthood, you have no idea what the death of a loved one is like until you experience it for yourself. Didion does a remarkable and brave job of bringing that experience to life for her reader.

While there were nuggets of wisdom that resonated with me and that I will take with me, this was not a story with a clear begging and end. It seemed more of a fact telling timeline devoid of the emotion that was so obviously left out. More of a clinical approach to death. I did not feel the warmth I should have felt at the loss of someone so near and dear to her life. Maybe that was her therapy....

A book that in less professional hands could have been tiresome. However this is written by a wonderfully gifted author that knows how to relate her very personal feelings to the reader without being maudlin. Brought back a lot of my own feelings from when my mother died. Easily read and easily relatable