Chris Duffy
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard 4d ago
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while you actually were both in the same place.
I I I wonder if the book r brought up new ideas of things that you wish you could have talked about.
I mean, there's so many moving scenes of the book about all sorts of different things, but there's so much joy when you and your mom and your grandma are hanging out together, just laughing around a table about things that um no one else can understand, but even things that everyone can understand, just y in sharing these small moments.
I think you capture that feeling of laughing with people who know you so well and have known you for your whole life in in such a real vision.
I I haven't really seen that in many other books captured so accurately.
Mm.
I I think it really is.
I mean, uh it's such a a beautiful parade of scenes and portraits and feelings and stories.
I it I think parade isn't necessarily the first word that I would have come up with, but I now that you say it, I think that really actually is an accurate description of the book.
I I think
When you're telling a story that involves suicide, there's this tendency to not want to talk about it openly.
There's this like we get awkward about speaking about it.
And I think a lot of the book is about that too, especially the second half of the book is about why do we feel like we can't talk about this?
On page 171, you talk about this idea that scholars have talked about that when you have someone you love who
dies through suicide that you're called a survivor.
And it's the idea that you survived another person's suicide like a car crash.
And you said that you write about a scholar saying that that's reductionist.
The quote is it's focused on blaming the suicidal person and ignoring interlocking systems of oppression that lead to a life being unlivable.
That was a line that just stopped me in my tracks and I underlined multiple times.
That idea of what is it that makes someone's life unlivable and how that as so much broader than any one story feels like a really different way of thinking about it, a really important way of thinking about it.
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