Blue Nights Audiobook (Free)

From one of our most powerful writers, a function of stunning frankness about losing a child. Richly textured with bits of her very own childhood and marriage with her spouse, John Gregory Dunne, and little girl, Quintana Roo, this brand-new publication by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts relating to having children, illness, and growing old.

Blue Nights starts on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding ceremony in NY seven years before. Today would be her wedding ceremony about Blue Nights anniversary. This truth triggers vibrant snapshots of Quintana’s childhood-in Malibu, in Brentwood, at college in Holmby Hillsides. Reflecting on her behalf girl but also on her behalf role being a parent, Didion asks the candid queries any mother or father might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or simply displaced. “How could I have missed what was obviously there to be seen?” Finally, maybe we all remain unknown to one another. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion views as underscoring her personal age group, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.

Blue Nights-the lengthy, light night time hours that indication the summertime solstice, “the contrary of the dying from the brightness, but also its warning”-like The Year of Magical Considering before it, is an iconic publication of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly shifting.