Suicide Tango

SUICIDE TANGO is a brave novel, a quirky story about love and teen suicide, featuring a series of in-depth psychiatric sessions over one year between a 17-year-old girl, Tripsy, and her 40-year-old male shrink, whom she affectionately calls "Dorkus."

Tripsy is a super-smart and thinking "suicide" with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. This Indigo Child’s mastery is accompanied by a caustic and devastating wit that often draws blood from nearby souls.

Don’t be quick to judge or feel sorry for Tripsy, though. This precocious brainiac has a master plan to shake things up.

One day, out of the blue, she descends into the office of Dr. Jon Moore, a middle-of-the-road psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, California, who treats troubled children and suicidal teens.

She then begins a year-long series of in-depth psychiatric sessions that test Dr. Moore’s last raw nerve. He has written his own unpublished manuscript about this taboo subject, and he gets schooled on every level by this spirited and otherworldly virtuoso.

Unsure about how to react to Tripsy’s unusual behavior, let alone how to treat her, Dr. Moore embarks on a deep emotional journey that forces him to examine his own past, present and future, not only as a psychiatrist but as a human being.

Structured as doctor's personal notes, SUICIDE TANGO takes you on a wild roller-coaster ride of emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and introduces some hard facts about American teens in the throes of anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior.

Will Dr. Moore survive her storming into his life and educating him in ways he never imagined?

What will become of Tripsy who, as she informed Dr. Moore on day one, has only one year left in her?

In the end, we can’t help but look around in disbelief and go, “WTF just happened!?”