Adapted by Joan Didion herself, The Year of Magical Thinking is a compelling elegy. While the original book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle awards, the stage adaptation was no stranger to positive reception and award...
is a compelling elegy. While the original book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle awards, the stage adaptation was no stranger to positive reception and award nominations.
The fact that she is rational is oft repeated. She rattles off details of her husband’s death and care like she was a mere bystander. The details demonstrate just how clear-eyed she is in the midst of emotional turmoil. She vividly explains how she told her still-hospitalized-recently-out-of-a-coma daughter of the death of her father-and her husband.
As the play continues, the narrative oscillates between memories, philosophical reflections on death and details of what’s happening with her daughter. Vogel seamlessly shifts between tender memories of her husband and daughter, clinical descriptions of her daughter’s treatment plans and moments of utter disbelief of what’s happening.
The play concludes with no real sense of resolution just as grief has no final resolution. Vogel has not arrived at the classical sense of interior peace and understanding that much grief literature says will be experienced. She accepts the loss not in the sense that she’s reached the final stage of grief. Moreso her husband and her daughter are no longer physically with her, and she accepts that fact.
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