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Where I Was From by Joan Didion

novella

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Dry as the desert.

Didion's reportage drags from irrigation issues to the Donner Party to the Spur Posse to the crashing defense industry to suburban sprawl, all in search of the "real" California, which she seems to conclude is a self-deluded, economically depressed, government-dependent society of undereducated egotists.

Well, I've been to LA enough, so I can't disagree, but reading this left me feeling like I had sand in my mouth. And I really like most of Didion's work. Play It As It Lays is a supreme confection of 20th century malaise.
 
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