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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses elements of her life, her work, her history and ours. A indigenous Californian, Didion can be applied her scalpel-like cleverness to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to look at that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and normal water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big authorities; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she actually is authoring her pioneer ancestors or privileged erotic predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unrivaled observer, and her publication is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
