The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide

✍ Scribed by Brooks, John

• Book ID: 108907933
• Publisher: Scribner
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 505 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781501128349

✦ Synopsis

An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge).
Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry.

Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge.

Brooks spent months 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 the...