{"product_id":"the-suicide-index-9780156033800","title":"The Suicide Index","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen 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.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Index\u003c\/i\u003e is, finally, a daughter's anguished, loving elegy to her father. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWickersham, Joan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joan Wickersham is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Index, \u003c\/i\u003e a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published essays and reviews in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and she has contributed on-air essays to National Public Radio. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644746633490,"sku":"9780156033800","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bad4c664-3f69-40c2-9a4c-58127ba56b03.jpg?v=1733124166","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-suicide-index-9780156033800","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}