#31: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Bleak and expansive, this very short read is emotionally eviscerating in the best way—sometimes, I think I need to be stripped bare, to experience how hopelessness is a lifestyle for some people, and Didion is the perfect person to render all this, especially with the way she recreates the barren, arid atmosphere that suffuses the California and Nevada deserts.
