The release date for the English version of 'Suicide Notes' by
Michael Thomas Ford is Oct 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
I'm not deranged. I don't see why the incident is such a huge deal. But here I am, so evidently someone does find it significant. It was probably my mom. She exaggerates everything.
On New Year's Day, fifteen-year-old Jeff awakens to discover that he is in the hospital. The mental ward, that is. Alongside the nuts. This is all obviously a big mistake. Disregard the entries on his chart and the bands on his wrists. Ignore his issues with Allie, his closest friend, and Burke, her boyfriend. Jeff is not like the other children in the hospital; he is completely normal and wonderful. Their difficulties are now present. However, as his 45-day sentence stretches out, an odd thing happens: the lunatics begin to seem less insane.
Suicide Notes is a darkly comic book by award-winning novelist Michael Thomas Ford that explores the blurry boundary between "normal" and the rest of us. It is compelling, amusing, and shockingly honest.