The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).   Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD.   “Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women . . . groping with and growing with the world.” —Minneapolis Tribune   Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann