Thread warning: suicidal ideation, suicide.

I want to talk a little about @seananmcguire's Middlegame.

Check out: https://twitter.com/seananmcguire/status/1277021053588353024 for other content warnings for the book.

You may know that suicide runs in my family, you may not.
My mom died that way, among other family members.

My therapist recently said that I will likely fight suicidal ideation my entire life.

One thing critical to me about Middlegame is the way the book beautifully and truly shows both the external experience of what it is like to know that someone you love is attempting suicide AS WELL AS the internal perspective of what it is like to feel suicidal.

I’ve never come across a book that does that the way Middlegame does.

Though this book has that very powerful scene in it, there are a lot of other powerful moments, and they are woven together in a gorgeous and complicated story.

That story revolves around a song the universe sings (that’s me misquoting @DrMaryCCrowell's Doctrine of Ethos, a central idea to this book)

To me, that song is:
“Why do we fight to survive?”
“Who can help us do it?”

It has the bone-deep, consequential adventure of A Wrinkle In Time, and the sparkling, story-loving worldbuilding of The Starless Sea.

I am biased. I think you will like it anyway. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250234209