In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours.
Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was from explores California\'s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospac.
A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state\'s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic\'s often tenuous relationship to reality.
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours