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All the bright places by jennifer niven6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() This may seem flippant but I thought it was quite an important point to make as it resonates with so many stories of suicidal intention where someone doesn’t necessarily want to die, but they just don’t want to live. In this book Finch sort of wants to die, but seems to be finding almost insignificant reasons not to go through with it – it would be a horrible mess for someone to clear up, and so on. We had lots of divorce and occasionally people died, but the frank approach to teens wanting to take their own lives just wasn’t talked (or written) about in the way it is now, in books such as this and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga and so on. ![]() I’m oddly intrigued by suicide books, partly because I do a lot of work on suicide and child and adolescent mental health as part of my day job, and partly because I don’t remember quite so many books being quite so daring in this regard when I was an official young adult. At least one of them has a plan to make the pain stop in the most final way possible. And he doesn’t mean that in terms of physically awake, but more so in terms of his emotions. Finch, meanwhile has started from zero and is logging the number of days in a row he is awake. Violet is on countdown to graduation, to getting away from the school and town that hold so many torturous memories. Finch and Violet are both counting the days. ![]()
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