A Year of Miraculous Thoughts is an autobiographical narrative by writer, journalist and screenwriter Joan Didion. After the sudden death of her husband John, also a writer, she sensitively analyzes the events and all the happenings that led to the painful loss and after the moment she is left alone. It is a hard and relentless road to confronting the fact that she is left alone. You end up in a deep, dark and endless vortex that you cannot resist. What is it that shakes you to the point of complete loss of rational reason? It is not the sight of a dead loved one, it is not the funeral ceremony, you somehow survive all this as if in a trance. You act like a robot and rely on a routine that is close to you and gives you a certain security that you have lost. And this is the hardest thing, the loss of security, as if you are completely naked, vulnerable and exposed. At the same time, Joan must find the last atoms of strength, without surrendering to mourning. Quintana, her only child, suddenly fell seriously ill with the flu a few days before her husband's death and went into septic shock. "I'm a person who can handle anything. And as my late beloved husband John would say, I love you more than I love myself."