A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking. It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp little more than air. But harder, keener forces impel her to do his bidding, to go naked into a `situation' in Central America, because `things were hotting up again'.
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Elena McMahon is a reporter for the Washington Post and the unlikely inheritor of her father's complex and secretive life as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. The year is 1984, and as she flies to an unnamed island off the coast of Costa Rica, she is oblivious to the spies, American military personnel, and the consequences of her father's errors that await her. She's also unprepared for the advances of Treat Morrison, an American diplomat whose service under six administrations has made him a "crisis junkie." Treat narrates this story, offering a unique perspective on Elena, a woman who abandons one life for another.
From one of America's most celebrated writers, a highly distilled, dark and thrilling narrative that takes place between 1984 and the present. Speaking in the present, the narrator makes clear that this is her version of what happened in 1984. In cool, spare, and elegant prose, Joan Didion delivers a powerful work. Simultaneous hardcover release from Knopf. 2 cassettes.
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