A haunting memoir on motherhood, aging, and mortality as Didion reflects on her daughter’s life and her own fading days.
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A haunting memoir on motherhood, aging, and mortality as Didion reflects on her daughter’s life and her own fading days.
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In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hill...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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Alcoholism themes referenced
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child’s death and illness central; abandonment and medical trauma themes
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