<p>Quintana Roo Dunne takes in the ocean view with her parents, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion in Malibu in 1976. Quintana Roo fell ill in 2003, and her father had a fatal heart attack several days later. <em>Blue Nights </em>is Didion's elegy for her daughter who died in 2005 at age 39.</p>
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