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Description
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages... read more
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“What we do not know kills. Yet we know a mastodonic amount about suicide.”
First Sentence
NO ONE KNOWS who the first was to slash his throat with a piece of flint, take a handful of poison berries, or intentionally drop his spear to the ground in battle.
Table of Contents
1. Buried Above Ground
2. Just Hope Has Gone
3. Pangs of Nature, Taints of Blood
4. Building Against Death
Authors & Contributors
- Kay R. Jamison (Author)
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