("When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you," she writes. Her new book, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order (Harcourt), starts with the terrible day, then goes backward and forward in time, charting the act's effect on herself and the other survivors, and trying to chart the road that led her father to such an act. Wickersham ’78 and the rest of her family were shocked, in the fullest meaning of the word: there had been no warning, and there was no note. On a winter's morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Mark Ostow Writer Joan Wickersham ’78 has been grappling with her father's suicide for 17 years.
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