Warning for suicide, self harm, and over dosing.Spoilers aheadI think I read some of this book a few years ago, maybe around 2019. It begins with the main character taking a bottle of sleeping pills in hopes of offing themselves. They wake up in a hospital with a tube running down their throat before quickly falling back asleep. Later, the main character meets some of their roommates at the mental hospital they've been sent to. There's a girl who's somewhat loud and has visible scars along her arms. There is also a boy who claims to have spoken to God and believes he must die to save everyone. It was in a library near the Fault in Our Stars by John Greene and Paperweight by Meg Haston, so I'm assuming the author's last name begins with a letter around G and H. Hopefully someone can find this book; I've wanted to read it for a while and regret not picking it upThanks :)
16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she must find a path to recovery - and perhaps rescue some others along the way.When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she shouldn't be alive. But then she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the s 16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she must find a path to recovery - and perhaps rescue some others along the way.When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she shouldn't be alive. But then she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the saint; E.M., always angry; and Dr. Desai, a quiet force. With stories and honesty, kindness and hard work, they push her to reconsider her life before Lakeview, and offer her an acceptance she's never had. But Vicky's newfound peace is as fragile as the roses that grow around the hospital. And when a crisis forces the group to split up, sending Vick back to the life that drove her to suicide, she must try to find her own courage and strength. She may not have them. She doesn't know. Inspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, The Memory of Light is the rare young adult novel that focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but the recovery from one - about living when life doesn't seem worth it, and how we go on anyway. ...more