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In his 2005 memoir, David Vann attempted to come to terms with his father's suicide by taking a voyage on a hopelessly unprepared boat.  In his  new novella and collection of short stories, 
"Legend of a Suicide," Vann comes back to the themes of loss and a father's legend that haunts his son.

In his 2005 memoir, David Vann attempted to come to terms with his father's suicide by taking a voyage on a hopelessly unprepared boat.  In his  new novella and collection of short stories, 
"Legend of a Suicide," Vann comes back to the themes of loss and a father's legend that haunts his son.

A father's tragedy shadows the son

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