When Breath Becomes Air was such a needed combination of tragedy and inspiration - exactly what I'd hoped a philosopher neuroscientist would have written as a contemplation of his own and all of our mortality. It's beautiful. And I hope you'll dig into The Year of Magical Thinking. It gutted me, but is also funny and clever and wonderfully completely Didion.
When Breath Becomes Air was such a needed combination of tragedy and inspiration - exactly what I'd hoped a philosopher neuroscientist would have written as a contemplation of his own and all of our mortality. It's beautiful. And I hope you'll dig into The Year of Magical Thinking. It gutted me, but is also funny and clever and wonderfully completely Didion.