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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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Loot Price R248
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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, and closed the garage door. Her body
was found the next morning. Those are the simple facts, but the act
of suicide is far from 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 non-fiction, she
recreates with unsparing honesty her sister's inner life, and 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. Drawing on the
works of doctors and psychologists as well as a range of writers
from Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to Sylvia Plath and
Wallace Stevens, Bialosky gives us a haunting exploration of human
fragility and strength. She juxtaposes the story of Kim's death
with the challenge of becoming a mother and her own experience of
raising a son. This is a book that explores the families we are
born into, the families circumstances give us, and the tender and
enduring bonds that keep us connected to the people we love, even
after they have left us.
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