Through a clear and haunting reckoning with the author's own story, One Friday in April confronts the limits of our understanding of suicide. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials, the terror of submitting to ECT-and the saving call from David Foster Wallace that convinced him to try it-as well as years of fitful recovery and setback. Named one of the Most Anticipated of Books of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, and The MillionsĪ searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.Īs the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
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