Notes on a Birthplace by Way of Joan Didion
"It is assumed that grown women will have their hair done, is all I can think."
This is part 2. Read part 1, Notes on a Marriage by Way of Joan Didion. Paid subscribers can listen to this post here.
If you enjoy this post, you might enjoy my early South-centric books: The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (linked stories set in Alabama and San Francisco), Hum: Stories (which includes the story “Scales,” set in Fairhope, Alabama), and Drea…