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The Girl Behind the Door : a Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide by Brooks, John, 1956- author is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Girl Behind the Door : a Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide about?

"An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent months after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Casey's journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for the first fourteen months of her life, to her adoption and life with John and his wife Erika in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Casey's friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, research

Who reads The Girl Behind the Door : a Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide?

It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.

Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.

Author
Brooks, John, 1956- author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781501128387
Category
self-help
Subjects
Medical, Fiction, Memoir
Rating
3.96 / 5 (31 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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