A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path of recovery. Why do so many people want to die--and how do we begin to understand what makes a person choose suicide? After a decade of therapy and a stint in a psychiatric ward to treat suicidal depression, Arianna Rebolini was 'better.' She'd published her first book, enjoyed an influential, rewarding publishing job, and celebrated both a marriage and the birth of her first child--but none of it was enough to keep the desire to die at bay. One night, grappling with overwhelming debt and a prolonged depression, she composed goodbye letters to her husband and son while they slept just feet away. In Better, Arianna interweaves the story of her month-long period of crisis with decades of personal and family history, from her first cry for help in the fourth grade with a plastic knife, to her fears of passing down the dark seed of suicide to her own son, and her brother's own
