Joan Wickersham: 3 books
The Suicide Index
Putting My Father's Death in Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
National Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe
One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never...
by Joan Wickersham
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
In this witty and moving work of short fiction, “you” recall the romantic interests you had once pined for, crushed on from afar, kissed, and never forgot. Exploring the forces of attraction as well as the tender reaches of the heart, Joan...
The News from Spain
Seven Variations on a Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the Year
The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century...