gee_schmidt 's review for:

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

5.0

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Each essay contained moments that absolutely floored me. I especially loved how Joan Didion detailed her experience of spending time in the place she grew up in 'On Going Home'- "Paralyzed by the neurotic lassitude engendered by meeting one's past at every turn, around every corner, inside every cupboard, I go aimlessly from room to room." Also the frayed sanity and uneasiness she describes being brought on by the Santa Ana winds. I think on any given revisit I would find something I needed.