Blue
Nights, published in 2011, is the first book that I have read by Joan
Didion. It is a memoir in which Didion mourns the loss of her daughter,
Quintana Roo, who passed away at the age of 39. It is an honest,
wrenching book in which the author examines the complexities of motherhood
and aging, as well as the responsibility and struggle to do enough and
to do right by the people we love. I would be interested in reading one of her novels, but I was not particularly drawn in by her
fragmented and sparse writing style.
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