Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide-"a powerful book [that] will change people's lives-and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).

The first major book in a quarter century on suicide-and its terrible pull on the young in particular-Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unqui...