Democracy (novel)

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Democracy is a 1984 novel by the American author Joan Didion. Set in Hawaii and Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, the book tells the story of Inez Victor, wife of U.S. Senator and one-time presidential hopeful Harry Victor, and her enduring romance with Jack Lovett, a CIA agent/war profiteer whom Inez first met as a teenager living in Hawaii. The novel follows Inez Christian Victor, the wife of the Senator Harry Victor who ran for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 1972 presidential election and the daughter of a prominent family in Honolulu, Hawaii. Joan Didion serves as the narrator of the novel and defines herself as an acquaintance of Inez, telling the story of her family's life in Honolulu, where her mother, Carol Christian, abandoned her husband Paul and her daughters Inez and Janet when they were young. Inez met Jack Lovett, an undefined intelligence agent, when she was seventeen. In 1975, Inez's father shoots and kills her sister Janet Ziegler and a Hawaiian congressman, Wendell Omura. Shortly after, Inez's daughter Jessie runs away to Vietnam and Inez and Jack leave her sister's funeral to fly to Kuala Lumpur, from where Jack flies to Vietnam to find Jessie during the Saigon evacuation. The novel ends with Jack dying in a pool in Kuala Lumpur and Inez staying on in the country to work in refugee camps. Democracy, Joan Didion's fourth novel, was published on April 25, 1984, by Simon & Schuster. The novel's title came from the 1880 novel by Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel, which focuses on Ulysses S. Grant's second term as president of the United States.