Overview
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.The book, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780156033800 in Paperback by Joan Wickersham may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06/23/2009
ISBN-10:
0156033801
ISBN-13:
9780156033800
Pages:
336
Publisher:
HarperCollins
