This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life
An absolutely gripping psychological thriller packed with a twist you won't see coming Do you know why I didn't see it coming? Because the narrator is not only unreliable, he's a liar. Also, things like, and I'm (barely) paraphrasing here, "Does