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Joan Didion's Sacramento
1965
Sacramento, California
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Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
She was born into an old valley family and spent a career writing about what the place actually was rather than what it advertised, a farm town of levees and heat that had convinced itself it was the frontier. Notes from a Native Daughter is still the sharpest thing written about the city.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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