Where I Was From: A Memoir by Joan Didion (Paperback) MPS to a postapocalyptic Iron Age

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Where I Was From: A Memoir by Joan Didion (Paperback) MPS to a postapocalyptic Iron AgeFrom the bestselling, award winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline (The Baltimore Sun), Didiona native Californianreassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self sufficiency in order to examine that ethics often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir