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Meg Kissinger: While You Were Out (2023, Celadon Books) No rating

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, …

I think it’s worth reading, especially if you lost someone to suicide, and probably even more relatable if a close family member. Although it’s a memoir, it’s also in the style of investigative journalism. The author has done a lot of work in this field related to mental illness. So she adds in that experience and also history, statistics, policy, etc. I also appreciate that she explains her process and efforts on writing this book: working with her siblings on remembering key moments, acquiring police records, and interviewing others from their past.