Notes to John by Joan Didion

Notes to John by Joan DidionA previously unpublished work from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years'. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The

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