SuitabookGrief and starting over
Caitlin is left alone after Ingrid’s suicide and struggles to recognise her new life, while family and new friends become part of her movement towards renewed hope.
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Nina LaCour - Author
This is a grief-centred coming-of-age story about surviving a friend’s suicide and finding ways to reconnect with life. Its emotional movement includes painful loss alongside family support, friendship, art, and possible first love.
An arresting story about starting over after a friend's suicide, froma breakthrough new voice in YA fictiondear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can't.Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful...in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend's suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn't die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid's descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a grief-centred coming-of-age story about surviving a friend’s suicide and finding ways to reconnect with life. Its emotional movement includes painful loss alongside family support, friendship, art, and possible first love.
Caitlin is left alone after Ingrid’s suicide and struggles to recognise her new life, while family and new friends become part of her movement towards renewed hope.
Ingrid’s journal chronicles what is described as her descent into depression and becomes a way for Caitlin to encounter Ingrid’s final period.
Caitlin receives help from family and new friends, encounters first love, and uses Ingrid’s journal to reach towards people connected with Ingrid and herself.
The central death and its aftermath are emotionally intense. Depression is part of Ingrid’s story, while Caitlin’s grief, fear, shaking, isolation, and struggle to find hope receive substantial attention.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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