Blue Nights

Didion writes with stunning frankness about her daughter,Quintana Rooas well as thoughts and fears about having children and about growing old. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parentshe asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own agesomething she finds hard to acknowledgemuch less accept.