PanThe Cleveland Plain DealerIt may be impolitic to say so, but what readers learn about Joan Didion in Blue Nights is that she is remote even in grief, and consumed with high-end brand names ... Didion's only child, Quintana Roo, 39, died after a long hospitalization. Blue Nights covers the aftermath. Yet it tells us little about the daughter, and much about Didion and her fame-filled milieu ...reads like a barely inhabited fragment ...we dwell with Didion, her angst and her stylish life. It's hard to trust a facade ... In Blue Nights, the writer bristles at the word 'privileged' being used to describe her family. But among all her status bread crumbs, it is difficult to find Didion, and worse, difficult to care.