The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham
A daughter's moving account of her father's suicide and its impact on her surviving family members--"beautiful...bleak, strong, and fiercely honest" (The Washington Post) One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. How could the man she knew and loved have killed himself? Unless maybe she never really knew her father at all? His death made a mystery of his entire life. Using an index--that most formal and orderly of structures--Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history, plus each encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors, exposes another facet of elusive truth. Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and a deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter's anguished, loving elegy to her father that no reader will soon forget.Joan Wickersham was born in the city of New York. She is the author of two prior books, the most recent of which was a National Book Award finalist, The Suicide Index. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Tales and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. She writes a daily op-ed piece for The Boston Globe, has essays and reviews published in the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, and has contributed on-air essays to National Public Radio. The National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo have all given her fellowships. Her husband and two sons reside with her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156033800 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156033801 |
| Title | The Suicide Index |
| Author | Joan Wickersham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2009-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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