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From one of our own most powerful authors, a work of stunning frankness about sacrificing a princess. Richly textured with items of her own years as a child and married life with her spouse, John Gregory Dunne, and princess, Quintana Roo, this new reserve by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and concerns regarding having children, condition, and growing old. Blue Nights starts on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back again to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her loved-one's birthday. This fact causes vibrant snapshots of Quintana's childhood-in Malibu, in Brentwood, at university in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her princess but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she seems she failed, either because cues weren't taken or simply displaced. "How could I have missed what was plainly there to be seen?" Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to one another. Seamlessly woven in are situations Didion sees as underscoring her own era, something she detects hard to recognize, much less accept. Blue Nights-the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, "the contrary of the dying of the lighting, but also its alert"-like The Calendar year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic reserve of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
