In the Wake of a Star by Jenny Espino

Loser’s Thought’s on “In the Wake of a Star” by Jenny Espino (to Nick Winney )

How do you write thoughts on a book that shouldn’t have to exist? I don’t know, so go read it for yourself while I try. This book grabbed me by the heart and made me feel a lot of things. It’s a non-fiction story that wrestles with grief and self-forgiveness, but it’s much more than that too. It feels like it’s part informational: a detailed and invaluable look from a parents perspective at suicide and schizophrenia and mental health. It’s also part tribute: I got to know Laury and the things he loved, I got to know Jenny as she divulged part of her inner self, and a lot of the other people. And it’s part journal: it feels written for the author, cathartic maybe, and for those few who walk the same path — I feel privileged and unworthy to have read the story. It’s such a well written and devastating book uniquely positioned to help parents whose children have lost the fight with mental illness.

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