anna
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Jennifer Niven:
Dear Jennifer, After reading your book All the Bright Places, [which is absolutely brilliant and changed my thoughts about suicide] I read over the author's note and I found out that your partner committed suicide and if I may ask... how did you cope? Did writing All the Bright Places help you? I'm truly sorry if I'm being too personal, I'm a very curious person. Sincerely, Anna
Jennifer Niven
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(view spoiler)[Hi Anna! Thank you so much for your question! (And thank you for reading the book!) Writing All the Bright Places definitely helped me cope with my boyfriend's suicide. But there was so much time, following his death, when I didn't talk to anyone about what had happened because the fact that he died by suicide made some people very uncomfortable. It was as if they just wanted it to magically go away, and because of it I carried that grief around for a long time. I wish now that I'd talked to someone and spoken up to let them know I needed help in dealing with his death. When I sat down to write ATBP, I was so scared because it meant facing that loss all over again. But it has helped so much to get it out of me and onto the page, and it's helped to know that Finch and the boy I loved have saved so many readers who were feeling suicidal themselves. (hide spoiler)]
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Nov 05, 2015 05:59AM