Blue Nights: A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.

As she reflects on her daughter's life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights--the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, "the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning"--like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/29/2012
ISBN: 9780307387387
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.23w x 0.63d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 85
New York Times Book Review 06/10/2012 pg. 32
People Weekly 04/21/2014 pg. 56