A New York Times Notable Book From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. As she reflects on her daughter’s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights —the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.

琼•狄迪恩

美国女作家、记者。生于1934年，20世纪60年代步入文坛。她在小说、杂文及剧本写作上都卓有建树，在美国当代文学领域有举足轻重的地位。2005年，琼•狄迪恩获美国国家图书奖。2007年，她又获得了美国国家图书基金会为对美国国家文学做出卓越贡献的作家颁发的年度奖章。2013年，美国政府授予琼•狄迪恩美国国家人文奖章。

主要作品有《蓝夜》《向伯利恒跋涉》《奇想之年》等。