Do not come in. Please call the police. The words were written on a tiny piece of white paper, tacked to Daniel Jones' white, locked living room door. It was Valentine's Day, 1994, when Moira Farr discovered that the man she loved had killed himself. A man who had struggled to keep his deep depression at bay; a gifted writer; a fine, loving companion: all described the young man who had taken his life using a method clearly outlined in the bestselling "self-help" book, Final Exit.Five years later, in an account that is both deeply personal and thoughtfully political, writer and editor Moira Farr reflects on Daniel's suicide and its consequences. After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale is not a sensational tell-all, a self-help book on the grieving process, or an academic review of suicide theories. It is one woman's story -- beautifully, lyrically written -- of her own experiences and her realization that answers come both from within and from looking at suicide in a wider social context.In anarrative that moves gracefully between personal experience and a provocative analysis of suicide research, Moira Farr reveals how grief for survivors means conquering an obsession with the events leading up to the suicide, in order to leave behind the litany of "if onlys" and eventually heal from the trauma of the event. In a style as haunting as it is elegant, she reflects upon happier times, sharing a love story and a portrait of a man, who despite his demons, seemed t

After Daniel: A suicide survivor's tale

Biographies & Memoirs

Farr, Moira

Professionals & Academics

Harpercollins

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre, Cabin Fever celebrates two decades of writing with thirteen of the finest creative non-fiction pieces written by program participants. Drawn primarily from the program's second decade, this anthology includes essays on a strikingly original and global range of topics by some of the best non-fiction writers in the country. Tara Grescoe goes in search of "pure" absinthe; Jeff Warren examines the way whales think; Megan Williams takes driving lessons in Rome; Bill Reynolds writes about the joys and dangers of riding a bicycle; Charlotte Gill gives us the dirt on her eighteen years as a tree planter; John Vigna confronts his relationship with a troubled brother; Margaret Webb takes a sexy road trip to find oysters; Jaspreet Singh ruminates on life in Kashmir in the age of plutonium; Jeremy Klaszus gets to know his grandfather, a Nazi.

Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Pearson, Ian

World Literature

Thomas Allen Pub

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