Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Blue Nights is a memoir written by Joan Didion first published in 2011. It is an account of the death of her daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39. Didion also discusses her own feelings on parenthood and aging. The title refers to certain times in the \"summer solstice [...] when the twilights turn long and blue.\" Blue Nights is notable for its \"nihilistic\" attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of her daughter's death. Writing for The New York Review of Books, Cathleen Schine said,\"'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' Didion famously wrote in The White Album. Blue Nights is about what happens when there are no more stories we can tell ourselves, no narrative to guide us and make sense out of the chaos, no order, no meaning, no conclusion to the tale.\"Blue Nights has been called a \"companion piece\" to Didion's earlier The Year of Magical Thinking, which focuses on Didion's experiences following the death of her husband and hospitalization of her daughter."@en }
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- Blue_Nights abstract "Blue Nights is a memoir written by Joan Didion first published in 2011. It is an account of the death of her daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39. Didion also discusses her own feelings on parenthood and aging. The title refers to certain times in the \"summer solstice [...] when the twilights turn long and blue.\" Blue Nights is notable for its \"nihilistic\" attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of her daughter's death. Writing for The New York Review of Books, Cathleen Schine said,\"'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' Didion famously wrote in The White Album. Blue Nights is about what happens when there are no more stories we can tell ourselves, no narrative to guide us and make sense out of the chaos, no order, no meaning, no conclusion to the tale.\"Blue Nights has been called a \"companion piece\" to Didion's earlier The Year of Magical Thinking, which focuses on Didion's experiences following the death of her husband and hospitalization of her daughter.".