Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery

On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath.

Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family and friends, including many from Will himself. A memoir with a social conscience, Will's Choice lays bare the social and political challenges that American families face in combating this most mysterious and stigmatized of illnesses. In Gail Griffith, depressed teens have found themselves a formidable advocate, and in the evocative and fiercely compelling narrative of Will's Choice, we all discover the promise of a second chance.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/01/2006
ISBN: 9780060598662
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.81d
Award: Books for a Better Life - Finalist
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 102575 / Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
Reading Level: 8.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19