skye16 's review for:

The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg

4.0

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This book is so important. Talking about depression and suicide in a non-glorified way is important. This book achieves what it sets up to do:

"This book is my attempt at a complete discussion of suicide. To show, as objectively as possible in a fictional environment, all the possibilities for two young people who are struggling with suicidal ideation. What might happen if they jump, and what might happen if they don’t. The potential impacts on people we know as well as on people we don’t know."

" [...] we need to talk MORE about suicide, to demystify it. We need to discuss the feelings of despair and depression, as well as the entirety of suicide, including the impacts. Including the alternatives. The discussion needs to be a complete one. In talking about suicide, we must be careful not to glamorize it. Not to create fantasies or magical thinking about suicide as some sort of answer to anyone’s struggles. "