Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024)

New Books in Biography & Memoir · Nov 9, 2024 · 47m

Note: This episodes contains references to suicide.

When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him? A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers and a man who jumped off the…