Discover Book: Back from Suicide
A mother searches for answers after losing her brilliant son to suicide. Back from Suicide explores the hidden realities of depression, the limits of success and the unbearable question left behind: why someone so loved could not stay.
Before and After the Essential Patrick
by Marie Lisette Rimer
Some books do not seek to explain grief — they sit inside it.
Back from Suicide is a deeply moving memoir that confronts one of the most painful and enduring questions a parent can face: Why? Marie Lisette Rimer writes from the aftermath of unimaginable loss, following the death of her son Patrick: brilliant, accomplished, loved, and gone far too soon.
Patrick Wood was a valedictorian, an AP Scholar, a National Merit Scholarship winner with perfect SAT scores. He graduated from Stanford with honors. He was openly gay, supported and cherished by his mother, and outwardly successful by every visible measure. And yet, one year after graduation, he died by suicide.
In this memoir, Rimer explores the inner landscape of the suicidal mind, tracing the misery of depression and the quiet, often invisible struggle to survive it. Her writing refuses simplifications. There are no easy explanations, no neat conclusions ... only an honest pursuit of understanding, shaped by love, loss, and the courage to keep asking difficult questions.
Back from Suicide is both a personal reckoning and a broader reflection on mental health, identity, and the tragic disconnect between external success and internal suffering. It is a book for parents, educators, readers, and anyone willing to sit with discomfort in order to better understand the fragile complexity of the human mind.
“Back from Suicide is a must-read for everyone, at this moment of our sad history, when teenage suicide is on the rise.”
— Nancy Cobb, In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living
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