Surviving Sam by Karen Rivers

() A quite shaking first-person perspective of depression and grief.
The narrator, Pagan, was the twin sister of Sam. Sam dangled on the edge of Pagan's suspension rope during a treacherous avalanche. He fell and died. Pagan broke some bones, lost an eye, and lived. She's now trying to live three years later with an immense burden of guilt and pain. She's tried to kill herself eight times already. She feels she is on her last, ninth, life.
This story takes a very deep look inside the disturbing mind of mentally unsound individuals. But it is careful not to dehumanize their experience, and makes it easy for any non-medicated or therapy-focused individual to also relate. It emphasizes the will for human survival but also the intense amounts of hidden human suffering we witness (and may experience) everyday.