Suicide Notes is narrated by Jeff, who we soon find out is narrating from the psychiatric ward of a local hospital.’ As far as Jeff is concerned he’s fine, just fine, despite the bandages from where he tried to slit his wrists.’ Obviously, Jeff is not fine, but he’s also quite reluctant to talk about or even acknowledge the events that landed him in the hospital in the first place. He’s much more interested in telling the reader about his fellow patients and their day-to-day dramas.’ The hospital’s tough yet sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. K., isn’t as willing to let Jeff ignore the course of events that drove him to suicide before Jeff can go home he will have to face a part of himself he’s buried and denied.’ Jeff is ready to keep denying everything until some’ late-night encounters with another patient make him see that he can’t, not unless he wants to be suicidal forever.
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