Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery Contributor(s): Griffith, Gail (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060598662 ISBN-13: 9780060598662 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: This timely and compelling family memoir candidly tells the story of one family, an attempted teen suicide, and the emotional and practical struggle to get help. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Suicide - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Adolescence |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.3" W x 8.02" (0.56 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 102575 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath. Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family and friends, including many from Will himself. A memoir with a social conscience, Will's Choice lays bare the social and political challenges that American families face in combating this most mysterious and stigmatized of illnesses. In Gail Griffith, depressed teens have found themselves a formidable advocate, and in the evocative and fiercely compelling narrative of Will's Choice, we all discover the promise of a second chance. |
Contributor Bio(s): Griffith, Gail: - Gail Griffith has spent most of her career as a coordinator, fundraiser, and advocate for international humanitarian programs. She is a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and has served as the patient representative to the Food and Drug Administration's advisory committee on possible links between antidepressant medication and suicidal thinking in teenagers. She lives in Washington, D.C. |