The Suicide's Son
Author: James Arthur
Publisher: Signal Editions
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781550655223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Complicated histories that parents pass on to their children."--
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The Suicide's Son
Author: Jim Wooten
Publisher: Grant & Lee Publishing
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780578322698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Suicide's Son recounts the dramatic events that culminate in the shocking death of a thirty-five-year-old father. The story is told through the eyes and memory of his son, writing nearly sixty years later.
Voices of Strength
Author: Judy Zionts Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780882823331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this deeply moving but also practical book, authors Judy Zoints Fox and Mia Roldan share the results of their survey of children of a parental suicide as well as discussing what is helpful to suicide survivors and what is not.
Prayers for Bobby
Author: Leroy Aarons
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-08-25
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 0061951951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be "healed," then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth. As told through Bobby's poignant journal entries and his mother's reminiscences, Prayers for Bobby is at once a moving personal story, a true profile in courage, and a call to arms to parents everywhere.
Charms Against Lightning
Author: James Arthur
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1556593872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"That feeling of becoming a new person in a different place, even if it's an illusion, is intoxicating to me, and always has been. I love writing about places, but only places where I don't belong."--James Arthur Awakening is the theme of this fiery debut about the "ghost world" of shadows and personae. A sense of history, politics, and place is an integrated and integral part of the whole, alive with stirring accounts of travel, intimate moments of solitude, and encounters with the ineffable. Romantic in spirit and contemporary in outlook, James Arthur writes exciting, rhythmical, elastic poems. "Charms against Lightning" Against meningitis and poisoned milk, flash floods and heartwreck, against daydreams Against losing your fingers, drinking detergent, earthquakes, baldness, divorce, against falling in love with a child Against lupus and lawsuits, lying stranded between nations, against secrets and frostbite, the burring of trains that never arrive Against songlessness, your mother's depression, the death of the cedars, Siberian crane Against these talismans against lightning; the shutters swing, and clack their yellow teeth; the deep sky welters and the windows quiver James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and Narrative. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he earned degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Washington. He is a recent recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Throwing It All Away
Author: Nina Owen
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781970137026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA high achieving young man brimming with genius and incredible promise shockingly succumb to the devastation of depression and drug use. Starting with the day her son went missing, this is a true story of a mother's indescribable anguish and the esoteric spiritual experiences she underwent after his death. In an authentic and unwavering voice, she imparts her son's intimate story and offers real wisdom for others: To Understand-How depression affects an individual and a family, from both points of view To Feel and Empathize-What it is to struggle with drug use and addiction To Perceive-The unbearable pain that suicide leaves behind To be Encouraged-Insight into discerning our passed loved ones as animate spirits. Depression and suicide are ripping through communities in record numbers. Throwing It All Away gives an uninhibited look at one family's struggle with suicidal ideation and the mystery of peace after death.
Where Reasons End
Author: Yiyun Li
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1984817388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master” (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair). "Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”—The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • The Paris Review The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.” Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
The Suicide Index
Author: Joan Wickersham
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0547350740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Who was he? Why did he do it? And what was the impact of his death on the people who loved him? Using an index—the most formal and orderly of structures—Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history, every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors, exposes another facet of elusive truth. Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and a deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter’s anguished, loving elegy to her father.
Sons of Suicide: A Memoir of Friendship
Author: J. David Pincus
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781733828703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSons of Suicide weaves themes of life-shattering tragedy and life-affirming friendship in a moving memoir. Rick and David meet in high school and soon realize they share a heartbreaking secret: Each of their mothers took her life just a few years earlier. Feeling lost and abandoned, they bond instantly. Decades later, they learn that two other close friends had also lost parents to suicide. Over time, each of the four sons opens up about how his parent's decision changed him and the course of his life. They soon discover that they are more than friends. They are brothers. Tom: "I talk to almost nobody about Dad's suicide and my feelings. But with you guys, I'm comfortable talking about any and all aspects of what I went through..." Dennis: "When she killed herself, I immediately thought that I had not done enough to help her..." David: "Have I forgiven my mother for taking herself from me? I don't know. Is suicide a selfless or a selfish act? Again, I don't know ... and probably never will." Rick: "Forgiving is hard, but possible ... eventually. Forgetting is impossible ... always." All net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to nonprofits focused on suicide prevention, grief counseling and mental illness.
The Last Goodnights
Author: John West
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-05
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 145877225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA husband and wife, both medical professionals, are gravely ill. Rather than living in pain, they choose to end their lives, and they turn to their son for help. Despite the legal risks and certain emotional turmoil, he agrees - and ultimately performs an act of love more difficult than any other. The Last Goodnights provides a unique, powerful, and unflinching look inside the reality of one of the most galvanizing issues of our time: assisted suicide. Told with intensity and bare honesty, John West's account of the deaths of two brave people is gritty and loving, frightening and illuminating, nerve-wracking and even, at times, darkly humorous. As West's story places him in one of the most difficult experiences anyone can endure, it also offers a powerful testament to the act of death by choice, and reveals the reasons why end-of-life issues are far too personal for government intrusion. Intimately told, The Last Goodnights points out the unnecessary pain and suffering that is often forced upon dying people and their families, and honors the choice to die with purpose and dignity. In the end, this story is not just about death - it is also about love, courage, and autonomy.
