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The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham5/13/2023 It will stay with me for a very long time., The Suicide Index is just astonishing. Her absorbing narrative is suffused with a profound longing to understand what went wrong in her father's life.Joan Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself, and has emerged with a powerful, gripping story., A love story, a mystery, a quiet tragedy, a dark comedy, and a profoundly absorbing modern family saga. A powerful, important book., Wickersham refuses to settle for sentimental, simplistic answers. And she has created the perfect form in which to stage her inquiry. Part detective story, part anguished examination of a family, she traces the myriad repercussions suicide has not only on the future but also on the past. In this harrowing, beautifully written memoir, Joan Wickersham tries to understand the forces that drove her father to take his own life.
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