Assembling my father

"In 1974, when Anna Cypra Oliver was five years old, her father put a gun to his head and killed himself. That shot has haunted her all her life. Obsessed by the need to learn who he was and why he died, she set out on a journey of discovery, following the clues he had scattered during his brief lifetime. Assembling My Father is the account of her search for the truth about her father, a failed architect and child of the counterculture, who ended his life at the age of thirty-five. It is a mosaic of language and images - photographs, journal entries, even doodles - the artifacts that are part…