Bodies at Sea

In “Testimonial,” a young woman mordantly records the suicides occurring in her high- school classmates. “Every time I tell my mother she ruffles, squawks, refuses to let her tiny black eyes meet mine. She behaves every time as if it were unique, as if I weren’t attending funerals as regularly as a season ticket holder. She forgets them, cancels and excuses them, leaves me to keep track. Its eight now.” And here’s why: “It wasn’t for me to take headers from ten stories up or court trouble o...