A review by rosemarieshort
Where I Was From by Joan Didion

4.0

Didion is a keen observational mind - reading her works is like sitting down for a conversation with the most interesting person you've ever met. What begins as her thoughts on the Donner party, the prison system in California, a college football sex scandal, weave together to explore the question this memoir is based around - where she was from. She wonders and thinks in an engaging way, her writing as ever sharp and tight with not a word out of place.