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South and West: From a Notebook Fiction_Gift_Guide Pete the Cat and theNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of contemporary literatures most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest her acute observations of the countrys culture and history feel particularly resonant today. Harpers Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooksof overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays,