Children's Nonfiction Literary
Love You Like Suicide
- Publisher
- Fierce Ink Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2012
- Category
- Literary, Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, General
- Recommended Age
- 16 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 11 to 12
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780988106789
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $3.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780988106772
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $3.99
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927746240
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $3.99
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Description
Set against the backdrop of the 1980s California punk scene, Love You Like Suicide explores the dark side of growing up. Author Jo Treggiari writes frankly about a period in her youth when she was addicted to drugs and living in a derelict neighbourhood. After a near-fatal accident, Jo is determined to clean up and start a fresh, new life. But there’s one thing she can’t leave behind: a tender friendship, on the brink of being lost forever. Love You Like Suicide is a gritty, true account of an adolescent who struggles against the odds to make a better life for herself.
About the author
Jo Treggiari was born in London, England, and raised in Canada. She spent many years in Oakland, California, and New York, where she trained as a boxer, wrote for a punk magazine, and owned a gangster rap/indie rock record label. Her novel Ashes, Ashes, a YA post-apocalyptic adventure published by Scholastic Press, was a multiple award nominee and bestseller. Her acclaimed novella Love You Like Suicide, appeared in the Fierce Ink Press anthology Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL and as a limited edition of the long-running zine Cometbus. Her most recent YA novels are Blood Will Out, a psychological thriller, published by Penguin Teen (2018), and a second thriller, The Grey Sisters (Penguin Teen, 2019), which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary award and was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis award.
