Nov. 23, 2011— — Quintana Roo Dunne, the adopted daughter of writer Joan Didion, had frequent nightmares about “The Broken Man” — an evil repair man in a blue shirt with a L.A. Dodgers cap and “really shiny shoes” who told her in a deep voice, “I’m going to lock you here in the garage.” … “Adoption,” Didion writes.
Did Joan Didion adopt?
Joan Didion’s adoption of her daughter Quintana Roo has been on my radar ever since I realized she and her husband had adopted a daughter because their daughter was born within weeks of mine, and both girls were surrendered as infants.