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The Girl Behind the Door : A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide, EPUB eBook

The Girl Behind the Door : A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide EPUB

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A moving and riveting memoir about one familys love and tragedybeautifully researched, and expressed (Anne Lamott).

Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughters room. Casey was gone, but she had left a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. Im sorry. Within hours a security video showed Casey stepping off the bridge.

Brooks spent several years after Caseys suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Caseys journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for her first fourteen months, to her adoption and life with John and his wife, Erika, in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Caseys friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social workers.

In The Girl Behind the Door, Brookss desperate search for answers and guilt for not doing the right thing without knowing what it was reveals the utter helplessness of suicide survivors (Kirkus Reviews). Ultimately, Brooks comes to realize that Casey probably suffered an attachment disorder from her infancyan affliction common among children whove been orphaned, neglected, and abused. She might have been helped if someone had recognized this. The Girl Behind the Door is an important book for parents, mental health professionals, and teens: Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa County Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge).

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