Bibliograph

The suicide index, putting my father's death in order, Joan Wickersham

Type

Label

The suicide index, putting my father's death in order, Joan Wickersham

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The suicide index

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joan Wickersham

Sub title

putting my father's death in order

Summary

One winter morning in 1991, 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. Who was he? Why did he do it? And what was the impact of his death on the people who loved him? Using an index-that most formal and orderly of structures-Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history, every 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

Target audience

adult

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