A review by samnopal
Blue Nights by Joan Didion

4.0

Joan Didion is the author I most expect to share with me her insight: insight into adolescents, parenting, loss of your partner. Blue Nights is all of that in a messy and poetic way. It's the fear of becoming a parent, and never fully knowing your children. The distance either self created, or a simple fact of existence. The fear of death. The repetitive and looming fear of death. Joan expertly lays out her frailty, clinging onto the memories of her loved ones, in the same way that she rejects the actual physical remainders.