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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order

Joan Wickersham

4.05/5 (1268 ratings)

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When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You're saying I'm gone and you can't even be sure who it is that's gone, because you never knew me.

Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. 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 — marriage, parents, business failures — and every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors exposes another facet of elusive truth.

Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter's anguished, loving elegy to her father.

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Pages:: pages

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Edition:: 1st American

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0151014906

ISBN13:: 9780151014903

kindle Asin:: B003URRT0E

The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order

Joan Wickersham

4.05/5 (1268 ratings)

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When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You're saying I'm gone and you can't even be sure who it is that's gone, because you never knew me.

Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. 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 — marriage, parents, business failures — and every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors exposes another facet of elusive truth.

Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter's anguished, loving elegy to her father.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 1st American

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0151014906

ISBN13:: 9780151014903

kindle Asin:: B003URRT0E

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