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## From Publishers Weekly California comes under Didion's captivating, merciless microscope in her controversial look at the greed, acquisitiveness and wasteful extravagance lurking beneath the state's eternal sunshine. In admirably lean, piercing prose, she describes her ancestors, women who could shoot, handle stock and shake snakes from their boots every morning. These pioneers had lived through an arduous crossing far removed from the noble odysseys chronicled by California mythmakers and arrived in wrecked wagons, facing desolation and death. Didion dramatically highlights the gap between California's rosy notion of itself as a land that stood for individual entrepreneurship, and the reality of growing government control and reliance on federal money. As a Sacramento native now living in New York, she conveys the tension of loving an area that's also disappointed her. She utilizes the 1993 Spur Posse scandal, in which teenage boys in Southern California slept with as many girls as possible and then regarded them as notches on their gun, to portray the spiritual vacancy of young Californian men, particularly in light of an overindulgent public attitude that downplayed their mor

Who reads Where I Was From : A Memoir?

Author

DIDION, Joan

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400043149

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Government & Politics

Rating

3.86 / 5 (96,847 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14