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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES

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'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

In November 1999, Joan…

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