Suicide

CW: suicide

With the mouth keeping it steady, errors are rare. If you had wanted to announce your suicide, which is to say renounce it, you would have chosen a gentler method. Yours was violent, the results irreversible. You used to think things through before acting. Once you were decided on something, nothing would stop you. Your gaze was no longer fixed on the world around you, but sighted on your target.

Suicide is about the narrator's friend who recounts their memories together, using a second-person perspective. It allows the reader to dive into the life of the friend. The memories are sporadic and random as the book goes along, its choice intentional as memories come and go. Some memories are from daily life, others are from more depressive states, or come from deeper desires.

I had a bit of a harder time diving in, probably because of the repetitive nature of this, some parts being more mundane than others. But, learning that this was Levé's essentially suicide note, you can't help but sympathize..

Thank you to Edelweiss and Deep Vellum Publishing for the arc!