“Lifeline shows us what the world looks like when someone you love takes their life. Elegiac, insightful, and searingly honest, Lifeline is a valuable and wholly original exploration of mental illness and the devastation it leaves in its wake.” — Don Gillmor, Governor General’s Award-winning author of To the River: Losing My Brother
“Every once in a while a book comes along that carries news of the front lines and traces the interior of an experience in a way that lets us see it with new eyes. Lifeline: An Elegy is such a book. There is no place to hide here, to pretend that we can somehow sidestep the intensity of human emotion. And, paradoxically, it is in this rawness, in Stephanie Kain’s unflinching honesty, that we come to understand this is a story of resilience and love.” — Eve Joseph, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and bestselling author of In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
“Lifeline is a frank, poetic discussion of the myriad facets of mental illness, so intimate, detailed, and honest that you’ll feel you’re there beside Kain, perhaps even as S, the one whom she addresses…at once a critique of the mental health system, a lament for a friend, and an expression of deep love and commitment.” — Ottawa Review of Books