Joan Didion's essay about Lucille Miller's trial was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1966. It later became the opening essay in Joan Didion's first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Her mother hated that essay and taught her children to hate that essay. She believed it was all lies and told us that Joan Didion was a liar for presenting our family as hicks.

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