Though this book is bursting with data, there are crucial omissions of fact that seem anything but accidental. The most glaring: 1) Dunne's age. 2) The severity of his health problems and number of procedures he had had over the years. Now, Joan is a great writer and I wish she had not suffered so. I realize too that death can seem sudden, even when someone has been on life support. But everyone seems to be taking her word that her husband's death was, from a medical point of view as well as a personal standpoint, shocking. A reviewer in Slate, Peter Kramer, made the case that Joan's magical thinking began before (decades before) his death, not after. He still thought it was a decent book. I wanted to love it as much as he did, but in the end it just seemed too calculated.