"n extraordinary, magical mystery tour of a book." - Los Angeles Times"Honest, brave, incredibly moving, and completely unflinching in its honesty. 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. Every bit of family history, every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors, exposes another facet of elusive truth. 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.
His death made a mystery of his entire life. "Wickersham gift for making her memories sing as though they were our own." - Elle One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head.The father she loved would never have killed himself.
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