California dreaming turns to dust: Joan Didion looks at how and why the promise of California failed.(Where I Was From)(Book Review)

National Catholic Reporter | April 16, 2004| | Copyright

WHERE I WAS FROM By Joan Didion Alfred A. Knopf, 226 pages, $23

The always engaging Joan Didion has written a probing account of her California childhood in the Sacramento region. She comes from pioneer stock, one branch of the family having trekked across the Great Plains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Pacific coast in the 1840s. About that same time, another branch made a similar crossing, braving hardship and all the attendant rigors of the daunting journey between the Missouri frontier and the Pacific coast. During that trip her great-great-great ...

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