Us, After, by Rachel Zimmerman

A Memoir of Love and Suicide.

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Episode Transcript

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With the w BZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. September
is National Suicide Prevention Month, and a new book examined
suicide and the impact on those left behind. Written by
an award winning journalist, Rachel Zimmerman. It's called Us After
a memoir of Love and suicide. Rachel's husband, an MIT
professor and father of two, jumped to his death from
the Tobin Bridge at the age of fifty. How could

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a man with so much to live for and no
history of mental illness do such a thing? And the
question is always what could anyone, particularly Rachel, have done
to stop him? The journalist in her has been intrepid,
hoping and believing that answers to her questions could help
her survive and move forward. She interviewed many and develop
an extensive array of information about suicide, its causes, and

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possible prevention. It's about secrets in the shadows, confronting the unimaginable,
and finding inner strength and resilience despite the pain. Us
After a memoir of Love and suicide by Rachel Zimmerman,
and That's the book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio