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Joan Didion dedicates these memoirs to her native California, the state to which her ancestors arrived centuries ago and to which she tied much of her life and work. "This book represents an exploration of my own confusions about where and how I grew up [...] misunderstandings and misunderstandings that are so much a part of who I am that even today I only sidestep them," Didion said. about a book as intellectually provocative as it is intimate. Blending history, chronicle, memory, and literary criticism, the author explores California's love affairs with the land and with the water, its unacknowledged debts to the railroads, the aerospace industry, and the central government, as well as the contrast between its cult of individualism and its fetish for prisons.