Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why Didion? Why the 'ethics of memory'? -- Chapter 1: 'Earthquake weather': Didion's universe -- Chapter 2: Memories are what you no longer want to remember: Witnessing, testifying and grieving -- Chapter 3: The norm of comprehensiveness: Nostalgia, Forgiveness and Critical Fabulation -- Chapter 4: Political memory and memory as politics: Critical political realism and neoliberal life narrative -- Conclusion: Joan Didion and the future: Philosophical unsettlement and the right to be forgotten -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.