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Alexandra Marshall

Alexandra Marshall  is the author of five novels and a nonfiction book. This essay is adapted from her forthcoming memoir, The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide, to be published next fall.

The Afterlife of a Suicide

The Afterlife of a Suicide 

And the royal sendoff for a queenmother of the Ashanti

by Alexandra Marshall | Monday, December 07, 2020

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