A review by uuuultraviolennnnt
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

this is such a compelling compilation of lives crossed by a single, insightful woman, I love how Didion is able to speak of people exactly how they present, with all their intrigue and ironies, she’s so wonderful and perfectly American. The titular chapter made me feel all kinds of worried and hopeful, worried about youth, hopeful for the innocence that clearly exists in our world, or existed at that time but feels so current still, it made me want to be sixteen run away from home, but also cry like the distraught parent I am not. Joan Didion observes so we can feel. She was young so young people could know what it sounds like to feel alone