[Joan] Didion writes, yet the infant "could not have been more exactly the baby I wanted." The origin myth goes hand-in-hand with a portrait of parental confusion: Didion is unsparingly specific about the couple's social milieu as Hollywood writers, and the ways in which she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, were not conventionally prepared to absorb into their lives the child who had been given to them. Drily, she notes that she "had not considered the need for a bassinette" and describes the two of them celebrating with a baby Quintana in mob fixer Sidney Korshak's booth at The Bistro on the day the adoption was made legal.from Meghan O'Rourke: Slate: Quintana's Story
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