Sublime

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

### Joan Didion

- Best Known Work:

- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.

- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:

- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A