The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Silver Linings Playbook" chronicles a riveting day in the life of a suicidal teen boy. "[T]his novel serves as a literary segue for teens, parents and teachers into an open dialogue on sensitive topics."N"USA Today."
In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.
Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol. Maybe one day he'll believe that being different is okay, important even. But not today.