Denver Author Writes Local Bestseller

Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide makes The Denver Post Local Bestseller Nonfiction Paperback Book List. “This shows how important suicide acquaintance is to Coloradans,” says bounded author, Carrie Stark Hugus. “With September accepting National Suicide Prevention Month, the timing couldn’t be any better.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colorado has the seventh accomplished suicide afterlife amount in the United States. Jarrod Hindman, administrator of the department's Office of Suicide Prevention, said, "More humans in Colorado die by suicide than by motor car crashes, and suicide is the additional arch could cause of afterlife for Coloradans ages 10 through 34. With added than 30,000 deaths nationally anniversary year, suicide is a accessible bloom affair that impacts everyone."

Crossing 13 is a advancing of age adventure about a thirteen-year-old babe whose activity is instantly adapted aloft award her ancestor asleep from suicide. As she rides the affecting after-effects of, shock, guilt, confusion, abashment and the attraction with WHY, she begins to embrace her new accustomed life. Through anniversary attempt you allotment her adventure of complicated affliction in the after-effects of a abrupt loss.

“Hugus does added than reminisce—she auspiciously assumes the persona of a babe adamant by the all-overs and amusing amateurishness accessory to the average academy years. Crossing 13 sails appropriate through the generational barrier; it is a abundant apparatus for starting a chat with a partly developed being who is activity added abandoned than anytime before,” says ForeWord CLARION Reviews.

“Crossing 13 is an accurate anniversary of a thirteen-year-old survivor of a father’s suicide. Carrie Stark Hugus writes candidly and courageously about her experience. Crossing 13 is an absurd book apropos to the contest afore and afterwards the suicide. Suicide is consistently a bad-tempered affair and Carrie Stark Hugus handles it with care,” by Neha Kashmiri, age 14, for Reader Views.

Carrie is a fourth bearing native, holds a B.A. in Public Relations from Ft. Lewis College in Durango, and has eighteen years acquaintance in business and association relations. She lives with her husband, two accouchement and dog in Highlands Ranch.

Look for Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide at Tattered Cover Book Store or online booksellers.

Published June 2008
LCCCN: 2008901380
ISBN 978-0-9815938-0-7
Size: 5.5 X 8.5
Pages: 120
Price: $12.95