Writing style
Conversational · Direct · Witty
Apple BooksSuicide Notes
Literary fiction
- First published
- 2008
- Print length
- 304 pagesHarperTeen, 2008
Description
Michael Thomas Ford’s Suicide Notes follows fifteen-year-old Jeff, who wakes on New Year’s Day in a psychiatric hospital with bandaged wrists. Convinced that his admission is a mistake, he sees himself as fundamentally unlike the other young patients around him. Over the next forty-five days, however, Jeff gradually comes to understand why he is there. His experience also leads him to recognize unexpected common ground with his peers. The novel centers on the distance between Jeff’s initial certainty and his developing understanding, tracing a period in which his assumptions about both his hospitalization and the people sharing it begin to change.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Dark · Intimate · Irreverent · Reflective
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Relationships
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- HarperTeen
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060737559, 9780060737566
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