Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws is a book by Kate Bornstein.

• Bornstein, Kate (2006). Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. ISBN 1583227202. OCLC 63808160. 

The author bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

Hello, Cruel World features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.

Links

• Link to this book at Amazon.com
• Bornstein, Kate (2006). Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. ISBN 1583227202. OCLC 63808160. 
• Kate Bornstein's Hello, Cruel World website

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