Juliet Patterson - Sinkhole A Natural History of a Suicide A Natur - S9000z

Description: About this Item The item is a book Hardback The Author Name is Juliet Patterson The Title is Sinkhole: A Natural History of a Suicide : A Natural History of a Suicide Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 272. Binding type - Hardcover. Content Language - English Category - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement Product Description - Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA 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 holdIn 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 abandoned claims and sinkholes. There, Patterson carefully gathers evidence and radically imagines the final days of the grandfathers-one a fiery pro-labor politician, the other a melancholy businessman-she never knew. And finally, she returns to her father: to the haunting subjects of goodbyes, of loss, and of how to break the cycle. A stunning elegy that vividly enacts Emily Dickinson's dictum to "tell it slant," Sinkhole richly layers personal, familial, political, and environmental histories to provide not answers but essential, heartbreaking truth. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details  are provided automatically  from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions.  The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling.   Gift IdeasThis is a  great Christmas gift idea.   Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses,  some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 165761196

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UPC: 9781571311764

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Book Title: Sinkhole: a Natural History of a Suicide : a Natural History of a Suicide

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Publication Year: 2022

Item Height: 0.9 in

Topic: Women, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Sociology / General, Lgbt

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Genre: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 16.2 Oz

Author: Juliet Patterson

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Hardcover