Reddit reviews The Year of Magical Thinking

Sometimes all you can do is be there, and within those times, you can only try to be present as you deal with the loss yourself. You are doing as much as you can, no one can fix grief and loss as much as we would like to.

On a personal note, I went through something similar about a year ago and decided to read about the grief of another to help add context and meaning to my own loss.

No one book will do the trick for everyone, but the one that helped me was The Magical Year of Thinking by Joan Didion. It might not be your method of grieving, but it certainly helped me along my own process.

There's good advice in these comments already, so I'll just add that the this book, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, is really helpful and highly recommended for those experiencing tragic loss and grief (Didion's husband died unexpectedly in front of her at the dinner table, later in life her daughter died). It helped me and my mother quite a bit, if you could even read it along with your sister it might help ground your conversations.

Hi Pizza Safeword,

I hope it is not intrusive to share this; my sister is 32 and lost the love of her life this spring after 2 years of glioblastoma treatment. In all the anguish of trying to fit pieces back together these past few months, she said reading The Year of Magical Thinking has been especially comforting. It is an autobiographical book on bereavement (specifically of a partner). There's no wrong way to grieve, best wishes in your continued path.