- American Novelists, Biography, New York Times bestseller, American Women novelists
In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, knopf, Random House
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007432912
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Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. - Wikipedia
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