The Suicide Index Paperback - 2009
by Joan Wickersham
Summary
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.
From the rear cover
"[A]n extraordinary, magical mystery tour of a book." --Los Angeles Times
"Honest, brave, incredibly moving, and completely unflinching in its honesty. It's one of those rare books that will haunt you for a long time after you finish it." --Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition, National Public RadioJOAN WICKERSHAM is the author of the novel The Paper Anniversary. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories. An excerpt from The Suicide Index earned her the 2007 Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts."Details
- Title The Suicide Index
- Author Joan Wickersham
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, Massachusetts
- Date 2009-06-23
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156033800 / 0156033801
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Suicide, Adult children - Psychology
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Excerpt
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 08/30/2009, Page 20
- People Weekly, 07/27/2009, Page 49
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