Blue Nights Summary
Joan Didion

Blue Nights Overview

Blue Nights is a memoir by Joan Didion which focuses primarily on the life and death of her daughter Quintana Roo, as well as Joan's experience of aging alone. The book features many flashback sequences of her earlier family life as well as the stories of the deaths of her husband, daughter, and friends. In the present day, Didion explores the inevitability of death and aging while still dealing with her personal grief and sense of loss. Blue Nights explores themes of death, grief, aging, adoption, and the failure to confront certainties.