“I wanted to write about having children and how we dealt with having children, and that really wasn’t what the book turned out to be about at all. The book was, in a lot of ways, about my getting older. And I started feeling as if I hadn’t dealt with Quintana as a separate person, so I wanted to do that.”
Time Out Chicago interviews Joan Didion, comparing Blue Nights (loss of her child, Quintana) to her memoir in 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking (loss of her husband). Also, click here for more on Blue Nights.
