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The Suicide Index : Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham, Gail Hochman is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Suicide Index : Putting My Father's Death in Order about?
<p><P><i>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.” <P></i>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, <i>The Suicide Index </i>is, finally, a daughter’s anguished, loving elegy to her father.<P> </p> <h3>The Washington Post - Reeve Lindbergh</h3> <p>Instead of turning her back, novelist and short story writer Joan Wickersham chose to impose a kind of formal order on her father's suicide. He shot himself at the age of 61, and she writes beautifully, in her slightly scattered <i>
Who reads The Suicide Index : Putting My Father's Death in Order?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Joan Wickersham, Gail Hochman
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156033800
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14