bookblight 's review for:

South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion

3.0

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Didon's description of the south is timeless and all too familiar. Her first chapter on New Orleans made me sink into my seat. Being in the midwest, her writing on the humid, soupy weather and its affect on those who live there rang all too true. She wrote about a time that was a changing thing, race was as much an issue then as it is now, and her candid words proved that even her beautiful writing can't sugar coat an intense political and moral struggle that has spanned decades.