{"product_id":"undead-a-memoir-of-my-suicide-9780807016558","title":"Undead: A Memoir of My Suicide","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revealing memoir about the complicated truths of surviving a suicide attempt and rethinking the concept of \"suicide prevention\" to create a world that people want to live in\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMadeline Vosch did everything she was supposed to do when the suicidal thoughts started. Or she tried. Between studying, working three jobs to make rent, navigating the impossible bureaucracy of Boston's welfare system to access food stamps and nominally affordable mental health care, there was not a moment she was not fixated on survival. One night in April 2018, weeks before her graduation from Harvard Divinity school, she walked home from a party with a single intention: to take as many pills as she could stomach, and never wake up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut then she did. And she was left with a question: what now? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUndead\u003c\/i\u003e, Vosch deftly weaves together lyric prose, memoir, and cultural commentary to tell the story of what happens after a suicide attempt. Here, she sets off on a journey to find her kindred spirits in surviving the end of a story, investigating the various scripts she encountered in the weeks and months after her attempt--from other works of art that touch on the topic of suicide, to Christian theology, to medical texts, to episodes of \u003ci\u003eER, \u003c\/i\u003e to the news cycle as reports of increased suicide rates confirmed her suspicion: she was not alone in her attempt, even if she had no one to talk to about what came after. She might be changed, but what did that matter if the world that had ground her down wasn't? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVosch turns the concept of \"suicide prevention\" on its head, asking what it might look like to reconceive suicidality as a response to a social problem. She challenges us to incorporate \"prevention\" into a larger social vision that intersects with increased access to housing, to food, to healthcare--in short, creating a world that people can and want to live in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Madeline Vosch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807016558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadeline Vosch\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, a translator, and a professor. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWashington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She was awarded the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award for Nonfiction and was an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Madeline Vosch \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47897244631197,"sku":"9780807016558","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_0032ae2b-47eb-4a7c-b64c-aa4a41420230.jpg?v=1778004430","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/undead-a-memoir-of-my-suicide-9780807016558","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}