"A moving and riveting memoir about one family's love and
tragedy...beautifully researched, and expressed" (Anne Lamott).
Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage
daughter's room. Casey was gone, but she had left a note: The car
is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Within hours a
security video showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent
several years 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 her first fourteen months, 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, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social
workers. In The Girl Behind the Door, Brooks's "desperate search
for answers and guilt for not doing the right thing without knowing
what it was reveals the utter helplessness of suicide survivors"
(Kirkus Reviews). Ultimately, Brooks comes to realize that Casey
probably suffered an attachment disorder from her infancy--an
affliction common among children who've been orphaned, neglected,
and abused. She might have been helped if someone had recognized
this. The Girl Behind the Door is an important book for parents,
mental health professionals, and teens: "Rarely have the subjects
of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so
openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director,
Contra Costa County Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap:
Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge).
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