The Suicide Index (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156033800)

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.


Author: Joan Wickersham
ISBN-10: 0156033801
ISBN-13: 9780156033800
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 07/27/2009 pg. 49
New York Times Book Review 08/30/2009 pg. 20