The two find their way down, and they end up pairing up for a school project sending them to explore the natural wonders of their state. High schoolers Violet Markey and Theodore Finch meet atop the school bell tower, where both have them have gone to contemplate suicide by jumping. All the Bright Places is the kind of book that anyone struggling with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, or any mental health concerns ― or anyone who is close to someone who is ― needs to read and absorb into her being. And Niven's treatment of the stigma around mental health and suicide is what rises her novel from the ranks of other teenage love stories. She divides her time between Los Angeles and coastal Georgia with her husband, kids, and literary cats.'People rarely bring flowers to a suicide,' author Jennifer Niven says in the afterward to her debut YA novel All the Bright Places (Knopf Books for Young Readers). Her previous works include four novels for adults, as well as three nonfiction books.

She also oversees Germ, a literary and lifestyle web magazine for girls and boys age high school and beyond that celebrates beginnings, futures, and all the amazing and agonizing moments in between. Jennifer is at work on her fourth and fifth novels for young adults, with number three- Breathless just out now.

The film starring Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson, and Keegan-Michael Key, is currently streamable on Netflix, with a script by Jennifer and Liz Hannah (The Post). It was named a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, YALSA, Barnes & Noble, BuzzFeed, the New York Public Library, and others, and was the #1 Kids' Indie Next Book for Winter '14-'15. Her books have been translated in over 75 languages, and All the Bright Places has won literary awards around the world, including the GoodReads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2015. Jennifer Niven is the Emmy Award-winning, #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of nine books, including All the Bright Places and Holding up the Universe.

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