Great Regulars: "One of the things that was really difficult

for me when my sister died was the shame around suicide," she [Jill Bialosky] explains, her voice quiet. "It silences everyone, until you begin to feel almost as if the person never existed. We're able to discuss so many things now, but suicide still seems to be a topic that we don't have the language to talk about. So it was a journey for me to decide whether I could first of all write the book. As for the question of publishing, once I went that far down the rabbit hole, I began to feel more confident that other people would be able to see their stories within mine."

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: Finding words to talk about the hush-hush topic of suicide

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