Juliet Patterson Sinkhole: A Natural History of a Suicide (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

by Juliet Patterson

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Further Details Title: Sinkhole: A Natural History of a Suicide Condition: New Author: Juliet Patterson Publisher: Milkweed Editions Subtitle: A Natural History of a Suicide EAN: 9781571311764 ISBN: 9781571311764 Format: Hardback Release Date: 10/27/2022 Genre: Home Garden & Pets Topic: Medicine, Personal Development, Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, Biography Description: Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father’s father had taken his own life; so had her mother’s. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold? In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her father’s death, she struggles to make sense of the loss—sifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning. As the spring thaw comes, she and her mother depart Minnesota for her father’s burial in her parents’ hometown of Pittsburg, Kansas. A once-prosperous town of promise and of violence, against people and the land, Pittsburg is now literally undermined by ab

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781571311764
• Condition: Fine

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