Former child model Luz Dunn squats in this U.S. state in a dystopian 2015 novel by Claire Vaye Watkins. While searching for a missing boy named Christopher Robin, the narrator of a work set in this state encounters and hooks up with a drug dealer nicknamed “Deadeye.” The community of Acorn is founded in this state at the end of Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. A book’s section of (*) “Life Styles” in this state includes an essay that opens, “The center was not holding.” The narrator remembers how a preschool-aged child in this state was given LSD in her essay about her experiences in a city in this state’s Haight-Ashbury district. For 10 points, name this state chronicled in The White Album and other essays by Joan Didion. ■END■
ANSWER: California [prompt on Golden State or Golden Land] (Claire Vaye Watkins' novel is Gold Fame Citrus.)
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