About halfway through writing Blue Nights, her enchanting evocation of the life of her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion stopped cold. The book was a portrait of Quintana from her birth and adoption in 1966 to her 2005 death following a massive brain hematoma in New York Hospital.
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Joan Didion Nearly Scrapped New Memoir ‘Blue Nights’
‘Blue Nights’ was almost abandoned halfway through. Joan Didion tells Susan Cheever why.
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