Those Left Behind: My Brother's Suicide

Author C.A. Blake was twenty-four years old when her brother, Steve, committed suicide. She struggled with feeling she wouldn’t survive the pain of it. Blake grew up at a time when few coping skills were taught or offered, so she traveled the path of suffering alone. In Those Left Behind, she shares her story, telling how the tragic suicide left an empty hole where a life had been. She wasn’t sure she’d emerge from the dark shadow of the event. At the time, suicide wasn’t a popular subject,...