The Suicide Club by Toni Graham

The Suicide Club by Toni Graham

The people in these eight interlaced stories are bound together by the worst sort of grief, the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. But if suicide has stolen these characters capacity to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity.

These are sad, smart, and wickedly witty storiesGraham’s lost souls, uneasy in their skin and in their circumstances, linked by grief, demonstrate the way the tectonic shift of a loved one’s suicide sends out aftershocks for years. Get to know the members of The Suicide Club; they feel real to the core.

-- Kim Addonizio * author of The Palace of Illusions *

Graham's people seek solace in ways grim, odd, desperate, and even hilarious; they are at all times the wretched ghosts of the ones they've lost, yet cannot escape. And somehow we love them, grieve with them, as Graham does not allow us to escape this, either. She is a writer of extraordinary, incisive courage, sparing her characters and her readers nothing. No mercy, but all heart.

-- Brad Watson * author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives *

[A] poignant and darkly humorous look at life after loss. . . . Each character’s battle with faith, family, and personal responsibility is rendered with Graham’s signature sharp wit.

* Publishers Weekly *

Without question, Graham’s closely linked stories, amounting almost to a novella, are skillful.

-- John Mort * Booklist *

This short book is powerful and the stories are moving, and it is a quick read. Toni Graham does an excellent job not making it a complete sob story, but showing that these people have lives; even if it is in the middle of Oklahoma.

-- Kevin Winter * San Francisco Book Review *

The collection is a winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, no doubt for the clarity of action and the complexity of characters. Many of the stories within the collection are divided into episodes of present action and memory, offering rich and in-depth histories of the characters. These characters and their struggles are palpable, revealing truths of reality in the way good fiction can.

-- Allyson Hoffman * NewPages *

TONI GRAHAM, a native of San Francisco, teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she serves as editor in chief and fiction editor for the Cimarron Review. She is the author of two story collections: Waiting for Elvis, winner of the John Gardner Book Award, and The Daiquiri Girls, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780820353760
ISBN 10	0820353760
Title	The Suicide Club
Author	Toni Graham
Series	Flannery O'connor Award For Short Fiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2018-03-01
Number of pages	152
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.