The kitchen in the Malibu, California, home of writer Joan Didion and novelist John Gregory Dunne, their adopted daughter, Quintana Roo, sits on the kitchen counter in order to get plates out of a cabinet. Framed artwork is on the white walls; pots and pans hang above the built in range; on the opposite counter there is a built in sink and a pull out surface with a basket and cut flowers laying on it.