Vivienne

At 6:30 on the evening of December 21, 1973, Vivienne Loomis walked into her mother's empty silversmithing studio at their home in Melrose, Massachusetts, tied a rope around her neck, and hanged herself. Vivienne was fourteen years and four months old. She was attractive, intelligent, and especially gifted at writing, yet she suffered from so intense and unutterable a despair that she was driven to take her own life. Why? Vivienne is a loving portrait of a troubled girl, as well as a professionally innovative examination of an alarming and mysterious epidemic: adolescent suicide. Suicide is…