Where I Was From

Where I Was From

Infobox Book
name = Where I Was From
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image_caption = 2004 Vintage paperback
author = Joan Didion
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Essays
publisher = Knopf (org. publisher), Vintage International (2004 reprint)
release_date = 2003
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 240 pp (Vintage paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-679-75286-2 (Vintage paperback edition)
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"Where I Was From" is a 2003 book of essays by Joan Didion. It considers aspects of the history of California, as well as her own and her family's history in that state.

Didion writes, "This book represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up [...] misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely."


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