Great novel about 4 people who individually have decided to throw themselves off the roof new year's eve, only they meet each other and decide to go on living, for 6 weeks, and keep in touch and see how life turns out. The author has to get into the minds of a middle aged TV host, a 50ish single mother who has cared for her disabled son for 20 years, a 20 something rock star whose band broke up and girlfriend left him, and a teenage girl haunted by the disappearance/death of her older sister and her traumatized parents. Whew! What a read. it was hard to keep the 4 characters straight, because the reader finds out about them chapter after chapter, each chapter written in first person of that character. So you learn about them in their own words, and in the words of the three other people. Great novel, a good read. thanks Noah for the present!
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