Blue Nights: A Memoir -- Joan Didion, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.

As she reflects on her daughter's life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights--the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, "the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning"--like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.

Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/29/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.23w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780307387387

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 85
New York Times Book Review 06/10/2012 pg. 32
People Weekly 04/21/2014 pg. 56

About the Author
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and now lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, was published by Everyman's Library in 2006.