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History of a Suicide - My Sister's Unfinished Life (Paperback)
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History of a Suicide - My Sister's Unfinished Life (Paperback)
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""It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to
see other people happy...It is so easy to achieve." "--Kim's
journal entry, May 3, 1988
On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old
sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued
with her boyfriend on the phone. Then she took her mother's car
keys, went into the garage, closed the garage door. She climbed
into the car, turned on the ignition, and fell asleep. Her body was
found the next morning by the neighborhood boy her mother hired to
cut the grass.
Those are the simple facts, but the act of suicide is anything but
simple. For twenty years, Bialosky has lived with the grief, guilt,
questions, and confusion unleashed by Kim's suicide. Now, in a
remarkable work of literary nonfiction, she re-creates with
unsparing honesty her sister's inner life, the events and emotions
that led her to take her life on this particular night. In doing
so, she opens a window on the nature of suicide itself, our own
reactions and responses to it--especially the impact a suicide has
on those who remain behind.
Combining Kim's diaries with family history and memoir, drawing on
the works of doctors and psychologists as well as writers from
Melville and Dickinson to Sylvia Plath and Wallace Stevens,
Bialosky gives us a stunning exploration of human fragility and
strength. She juxtaposes the story of Kim's death with the
challenges of becoming a mother and her own exuberant experience of
raising a son. This is a book that explores all aspects of our
familial relationships--between mothers and sons, fathers and
daughters--but particularly the tender and enduring bonds between
sisters.
"History of a Suicide "brings a crucial and all too rarely
discussed subject out of the shadows, and in doing so gives readers
the courage to face their own losses, no matter what those may be.
This searing and compassionate work reminds us of the preciousness
of life and of the ways in which those we love are inextricably
bound to us.
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