Description
Book SynopsisA searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness
Trade Review"As a memoir, the book is superb, rich with all the details and vocabularies that comprise any de-mystification of illness." -- Patrick Nathan - Boston Globe
"A work of solace for the many people who have encountered this fear or lived with its aftermath." -- The Millions
"A profound, courageous, compassionate masterpiece...inspiring and essential... This book is an act of generosity; Antrim is trying to tell us something deeply true not just about the suicidal, but about all of us; about our culture, about the way we live, about how we might lead better, more authentic, more connected lives." -- George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
"[A] clear-eyed and unsentimental study of one of the most mysterious and misunderstood human experiences. It is what one expects from great art: life-sustaining and life-confirming." -- Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End
"[An] engrossing, necessary book — part memoir, part philosophical treatise" -- Heather Clark - The New York Times
"The suicided are by definition silent. We can never know what impelled them over the last threshold. Antrim’s report from the brink is as close as we can get to their voice. It’s a remarkable document...
One Friday in April… deepen[s] the empathy of all who read it." -- Jonathan Buckley - Times Literary Supplement
