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Joan Didion

A Book of Common Prayer

A Book of Common Prayer

A 1977 novel by Joan Didion set in the fictional Central American republic of Boca Grande.

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    “She left one man, she left a second man, she traveled again with the first; she left him to die alone. She lost one child to “history and another to “complications”. A truly beautiful, messy, infuriating book. There’s a video online of Joan reading this particular quote and it’s incredible.”

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