Suicide Index Putting My Father's Death in Order

Name: Suicide Index Putting My Father's Death in Order
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ISBN: 9780156033800

ISBN-10: 0156033801

ISBN-13: 9780156033800

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joan Wickersham, Gail Hochman

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

JOAN WICKERSHAM is the author of the novel The Paper Anniversary. Her work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories series. An excerpt from The Suicide Index earned her the 2007 Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



Suicide:


act of


attempt to imagine,


bare-bones account,


immediate aftermath,


anger about,


attitude toward


his,


mine,


belief that change of scene might unlock emotion concerning,


day after


brother's appearance,


concern that he will be viewed differently now,


"little room" discussion with his business partner,


search warrant,


speculation relating to bulge,


deviation from chronological narrative of,


factors that may have had direct or indirect bearing on expensive good time,


Suicide:


factors that may have had direct or indirect bearing on (cont.)


pots of money,


uneasy problem of blame,


finding some humor in


ashes,


Valentine's Day,


glimpses of his character relevant to,


information from his brother sparked by,


intrafamilial relationships reexamined in light of


Munich,


my grandmother,


items found in my husband's closet and,


life summarized in an attempt to illuminate,


numbness and


Bullwinkle,


chicken pox,


duration,


food,


husband,


psychiatric response,


various reprieves,


opposing versions of,


other people's stories concerning,


other shoe and,


philosophical conundrums stemming from


first,


second,


possible ways to talk to a child about


family tree,


full disclosure,


not yet,


rational approach,


weapons god,


psychiatry as an indirect means of addressing,


psychological impact of,


readings in the literature of,


romances of mother in years following,


"things" folder and,


thoughts on method of,


where I am now,