Angela M. Graziano’s provocative, beautifully written and gut wrenching memoir
illuminates the intensely complicated consequences of one young woman’s mental
illness and eventual suicide on those “normal” folk who surrounded and
loved her—parents, sibling, friends, and, most particularly, her Friend
Forever, Angie. Haunted by the loss and desperate to “find meaning in
moments that seemed...otherwise meaningless,” Graziano visited a therapist,
an experience that, combined with her proven ability as an engaging storyteller,
suggested the impressionistic style and structure of the memoir, mimicking,
through the fast-paced juxtaposition of past and present tense, the sense of
mining memory with a therapist and the subsequent and rapid resurfacing of
repressed memories, re-experienced in real time: “At some point, when
I was not looking, my memories—my life—transformed into a series of
scenes.” The result? A story, mesmerizing from beginning to end.
Unforgettable.