Full name: The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order

Author: Joan Wickersham Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780151014903 9780156033800 0151014906 0156033801

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. Similar books: Love Life by Rob Lowe Half a Life by Darin Strauss Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield The Stardust Lounge by Deborah Digges The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen Toil & Trouble by Augusten Burroughs What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden The Big Tiny by Dee Williams A Work in Progress by Connor Franta Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet Darkness Visible by William Styron