Pam's review
A Book of Common Prayer (Vintage International) by Joan Didion
I reread this book for the first time in about 20 years while on vacation, and I really admire Didion's narrative approach. I get the feeling that, knowing that Charlotte Douglas is a fundamentally unlikeable character (flighty, unread and uninterested in the world at large, emotionally retarded), she chose Grace Strasser to narrate Charlotte's story to allow the reader to experience at least a little sympathy for silly, shallow Charlotte.
