This work's narrator describes completing the crossword clue "Sometimes you feel like ___" with "a motherless child" even though the correct answer is "a nut." As a student, the narrator of this work thought that the line from "Rose Aylmer" about "a night of memories and sighs" contained a life lesson. The narrator also describes experiencing the "vortex effect" and ponders "the question of self-p
This work's narrator describes completing the crossword clue "Sometimes you feel like ___" with "a motherless child" even though the correct answer is "a nut." As a student, the narrator of this work thought that the line from "Rose Aylmer" about "a night of memories and sighs" contained a life lesson. The narrator also describes experiencing the "vortex effect" and ponders "the question of self-pity." This work frequently quotes a line spoken by Gawain in The Song of Roland: "I tell you that I shall not live two days."  The narrator refuses to throw away her late husband's shoes because she thinks he will need them when he returns. The narrator of this work repeatedly says "You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends," referring to her husband John Gregory Dunne's sudden death from cardiac arrest, which happens while her daughter Quintana is in an induced coma. For 10 points, name this memoir of mourning by Joan Didion.
This work's narrator describes completing the crossword clue "Sometimes you feel like ___" with "a motherless child" even though the correct answer is "a nut."
The Year of Magical Thinking