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.
- ISBN13 9780151014903
- Publish Date 4 August 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Publishers,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English