Blue Nights
by Joan Didion
Didion on the death of her daughter Quintana and on her own aging, written in her late, fragmented style. Less structured than The Year of Magical Thinking and more frightened.
Read it if…
you have read The Year of Magical Thinking and want the second grief.
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Skip it if…
you want consolation; there is little.
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Three things you will actually use
- Grief for a child is different.
- Aging brings fear of frailty.
- Memory is unreliable and precious.
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Read it slowly; it is short and heavy.
Our verdict
Fragmented and frightened.
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