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History Of A Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life (2011)

by Jill Bialosky(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1439101930 (ISBN13: 9781439101933)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: Although I feel awful for what the author and her family have gone through with the death of her sister, I have to admit this is one of very few books I could not get through. Once I start a book I feel the need to see it through to end.....I hate to say it but I abandoned this book midway through. Too much time spent on poetry and associations with Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath for me. I would've preferred to read more of Kim's life and history. I also felt the book had no logical flow to it (at least up to where I gave up). I am hoping, though, that this book helped give some peace to the author and her family.
review 2: The death of a coworker by his own hand led me to this book. I was impressed by the willingness of the author to expose her family situa... moretion and I was fascinated by the suicide research going on. It's tricky to write a book that seeks to answer both a specific and a universal question -- why would she/anybody do that? So I'm not surprised she had no final answer, but I think the search was worthwhile both for her and others who struggle to answer the question. less

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