However, given Finch’s lifelong difficulties, everyone assumes that Violet climbed the tower to save him, and he does not dispel this assumption. Using gentle, therapeutic language, Finch talks Violet off the ledge. Violet, formerly a high-functioning cheerleader, honor student, and all-around model teenager, is suffering survivor’s guilt following the auto-related death of her sister, Eleanor, the previous year. Finch, brilliant, ostracized by most of his peers, abused by his father, and suffering from untreated bipolar disorder, has fought suicidal impulses for many years. The characters first meet at the top of their high school bell tower, where both are contemplating suicide. Niven tells the story from two different voices, those of high school students Theodore Finch (who goes by “Finch”) and Violet Markey.
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