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TO THE BRIDGE
Yasuko Thanh's second novel TO THE BRIDGE, about a woman whose teenage daughter has attempted suicide.
The day started out ordinarily enough for Rose Duncan, her husband Syd, and their daughter Juliet. Another routine Sunday before the usual weekday grind. It was as the day was coming to a close that Rose was beckoned into Juliet's room, and as soon as she stepped inside, she immediately knew that something was different when she detected the smell of vomit permeating the air. At first, in shock, she thought her daughter was hungover, but when Juliet asked to take a few days off from school, Rose's mind shifted to another conclusion and she prepared herself to hear the words, "I'm pregnant."
What followed was something far worse: five words that upended the life Rose thought she and her family were living and made her question everything she knew: I tried to kill myself. And then - I only told you because it didn't work.
What do you do when your smart, beautiful teenage daughter with such promise tries to kill herself and then starts living life on a knife's edge? Do you hold on tight, watching her every move, weighing her every word, stationing yourself outside her bedroom door "just in case"? Do you pretend everything is normal, letting her go out to see her friends, letting her go to the mall and do all the normal things a teenager who hadn't tried to kill herself would do? Or do you walk down the same slippery slope of heartache and sorrow as she does until it leads to nowhere else but to the bridge?
YASUKO THANH'S story collection Floating Like the Dead was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction. One story in it won an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story. The title story won the Journey Prize for the best story published in Canada in 2009. Her debut novel Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, inspired by the history of her father's family in French Indochina, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for the best novel of 2016, and her memoir, Mistakes to Run With, was a national bestseller. Yasuko lives in Victoria, B.C. with her two children.
What followed was something far worse: five words that upended the life Rose thought she and her family were living and made her question everything she knew: I tried to kill myself. And then - I only told you because it didn't work.
What do you do when your smart, beautiful teenage daughter with such promise tries to kill herself and then starts living life on a knife's edge? Do you hold on tight, watching her every move, weighing her every word, stationing yourself outside her bedroom door "just in case"? Do you pretend everything is normal, letting her go out to see her friends, letting her go to the mall and do all the normal things a teenager who hadn't tried to kill herself would do? Or do you walk down the same slippery slope of heartache and sorrow as she does until it leads to nowhere else but to the bridge?
YASUKO THANH'S story collection Floating Like the Dead was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction. One story in it won an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story. The title story won the Journey Prize for the best story published in Canada in 2009. Her debut novel Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, inspired by the history of her father's family in French Indochina, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for the best novel of 2016, and her memoir, Mistakes to Run With, was a national bestseller. Yasuko lives in Victoria, B.C. with her two children.
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