Will's Choice

<p>On March 11 2001 seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In <em>Will's Choice</em> his mother Gail Griffith tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath.</p><p>Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family and friends including many from Will himself. A memoir with a social conscience <em>Will's Choice</em> lays bare the social and political challenges that American families face in combating this most mysterious and stigmatized of illnesses. In Gail Griffith depressed teens have found themselves a formidable advocate and in the evocative and fiercely compelling narrative of <em>Will's Choice</em> we all discover the promise of a second chance.</p>