Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends with the Dark. She lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona. To learn more about Kathleen and her writing, visit her website, kathleenglasgowbooks.com, or follow @kathglasgow on Twitter and @misskathleenglasgow on Instagram.
A New York Times Bestseller
An Amelia Bloomer Project Award Selection
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
"Girl, Interrupted meets Speak."-Refinery29
"A dark yet powerful read."-Paste Magazine
"One of the most affecting novels we have read."-Goop
"Breathtaking and beautifully written."-Bustle
"Intimate and gritty."-The Irish Times
"A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will
stay with you long after you've read the last page." -Nicola
Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything,
Everything
"Equal parts keen-eyed empathy, stark candor, and terrible
beauty. This book is why we read stories: to experience what
it's like to survive the unsurvivable; to find light in the darkest
night."-Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King
"Raw, visceral, and starkly beautiful, with writing that is
at times transcendent in its brilliance. . . . An unforgettable
story of trauma and resilience."--Kerry Kletter, author of The
First Time She Drowned
"A breathtakingly written book about pain and hard-won
healing . . . I want every girl to read Girl In
Pieces."-Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners and
The Cheerleaders
"A Girl, Interrupted for a new generation....The
story of the mad girl is ultimately a story about being a girl in a
mad world, how it breaks us into pieces and how we glue ourselves
back together."-Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and
Abandon Me
"Dark, frank, and tender, Girl in Pieces keeps the
reader electrified for its entire journey. You're so uncertain if
Charlie will heal, so fully immersed in hoping she
does."-Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter and
You're Not You
"Girl in Pieces has the breath of life; every character in
it is fully alive. Charlie Davis' complexities are drawn with
great understanding and subtlety."-Charles Baxter, author of
National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love
"Charlie Davis has been damaged and abused after several years of
living on the streets, but she is fiercely resilient. Though it
will appeal to readers of Ellen Foster, Speak, and Girl,
Interrupted, Girl in Pieces is an entirely original
work, compulsively readable and deeply human."-Julie
Schumacher, author the New York Times bestseller Dear
Committee Members
"In Glasgow's riveting debut novel, readers are pulled
close to Charlie's raw, authentic emotions as she strains to
make a jagged path through her new life. Love and trust prove
difficult, and Charlie's judgment is not well honed, but her
will to survive is glorious."-Booklist, Starred
review
"[Readers] will find themselves driven to see Charlie's story
through. They will better understand a world that often makes no
sense to outsiders. Glasgow's debut novel is a dark read, but
the engaging writing will win an audience for
[Glasgow]."-VOYA, Starred review
"Heartbreaking and thick with emotion,...[Girl in
Pieces is] for avid fans of Jennifer Niven's All the
Bright Places or Susanna Kaysen's Girl
Interrupted."-SLJ
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