Tasha's Reviews > The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

I zipped through this memoir and it’s beautifully written, albeit very hard in parts as the writer struggles with suicidal ideation. It feels unfair of me to say I wish there was more Joan Didion—it is a memoir, after all—but I wish there was more Joan, in that the ending felt a little like the author had a (justifiable) axe to grind about class differences but wasn’t willing to actually grind it because he didn’t feel it with his employer, only some of her friends, and I wish that had been explored in more depth rather than superficially.