We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine 4th fiction ● Escargot and the Search

● Escargot and the Search for Spring (also available as a board book for babies and toddlers up to 3 years old)

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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine 4th fiction ● Escargot and the SearchJoan Didion opened The White Album (1979) with what would become one of the most iconic lines in American literature: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Today, this phrase is deployed inspirationally, printed on T shirts and posters, used as a battle cry for artists and writers. In truth, Didion was describing something much less rosy: our human tendency to manufacture delusions that might ward away our anxieties when society seems to spin