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An undeniably sad story about a Ivy League athlete’s suicide. I think there is a lot to learn from Maddy but this book offers very little. Mostly, Fagan rambles about the dangers of social media (duh) without offering any sort of facts / statistics. And she really does ramble — to the point of neglecting both Maddy’s story and the discussion of suicide and mental health. There is next to no discussion of depression. Not once are the scientific causes even discussed. Instead, Fagan offers seemingly irrelevant texts from Maddy’s past (she literally includes an essay Maddy wrote about loving peanut butter???) and a narrative of Maddy’s life that is conjecture at best. There are constant references Maddy's frame of mind even though Fagan has no way of knowing what it was, and the linear account of the months leading up to the suicide are spotty.
I think I’d just read the article this book expands on. Not worth the extra tidbits.
I think I’d just read the article this book expands on. Not worth the extra tidbits.