The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir Knopf Books for Young Readers “A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald

What role will the “latecomer” play in this fractured family

They give her a sense of control in a world where women just like her disappear daily

comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth

And that belief has inspired her career as an artist

The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir Knopf Books for Young Readers “A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (IsaacA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction and his life changing decade working for Joan Didion As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he