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Blue Nights
''Blue Nights'' is a memoir written by Joan Didion first published in 2011. It is an account of the death of her daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39. Didion also discusses her own feelings on parenthood and aging. The title refers to certain times in the "summer solstice () when the twilights turn long and blue."〔Didion, Joan. ''Blue Nights.'' p 3.〕 ''Blue Nights'' is notable for its "nihilistic"〔O'Rourke, Meghan. ("Joan Didion’s Blue Nights isn’t about grieving for her daughter. It’s about a mother’s regrets." ) ''Slate''. Accessed November 5, 2014.〕 attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of her daughter's death. Writing for ''The New York Review of Books'', Cathleen Schine said,
"'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' Didion famously wrote in ''The White Album''. ''Blue Nights'' is about what happens when there are no more stories we can tell ourselves, no narrative to guide us and make sense out of the chaos, no order, no meaning, no conclusion to the tale."〔Schine, Cathleen. ("Elegy to the Void." ) ''The New York Review of Books''. Accessed November 5, 2014.〕
''Blue Nights'' has been called a "companion piece"〔Banville, John. (Book review. ) ''The New York Times''. Accessed November 5, 2014.〕 to Didion's earlier ''The Year of Magical Thinking'', which focuses on Didion's experiences following the death of her husband and hospitalization of her daughter.
==Style==
Unlike some other memoirs, including Didion's previous work, ''Blue Nights'' does not follow a conventional narrative path. Didion's writing is repetitive and nonlinear, reflecting the difficult process of coping with her daughter's death.〔Cusk, Rachel. (Book review. ) ''The Guardian.'' Accessed November 5, 2014.〕 Didion frequently diverges from the subject of her daughter, and often discusses her own life and feelings. Quintana's "fleeting presence"〔 in the book can be said to illustrate the difficulty of coping with a child's death. Other critics believe it demonstrates Didion's "lack of humility,"〔 a quality she has been criticized for as "a perennial insider."〔
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