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The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham

  Introduction 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—the most formal and orderly of structures—Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history—marriage, parents, [...]