A Book of Common Prayer
🌟 Editor’s Pick — Why It Belongs on Your ShelfJoan Didion’s 1977 novel is a taut, diamond-cut study of witness and complicity. Set in the fictional Central American nation of Boca Grande, it’s narrated by Grace Strasser-Mendana, who opens with the indelible vow—“I will be her witness”—to tell the story of Charlotte Douglas, an American unmoored after her daughter vanishes into radical politics. Didion fuses political upheaval with private grief in prose noted for its telegraphic swiftness—lean, piercing, unforgettable. If you want literary fiction that stares down chaos without blinking, this belongs on your shelf.
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