Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow

Aug 2016 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Kathleen Glasgow and Julia Whelan

About this audiobook

For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page."
 
   Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.
   Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.
  A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from.


Includes an Author's Note read by the Author


"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

“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

Ratings and reviews

Beautifully done, I loved the reader's voice and the story itself. I can only wish that it was longer but of course you need to finish a book eventually. I like the rawness of the story, I felt like I could relate to it and there's alot of things in here that regular people wouldn't have a clue about; which made me believe the author has most likely lived through some of this stuff. (or has a really good source of info from someone that has)

This is a beautifully devastating piece about something so very real and raw. It healed a piece of me to go through this journey. I have been in the dark and now live in the light this book is a beautiful work of representation for the struggle to fight and survive in a cruel world. Arizona reader here loving having found a great story that takes place partly in Az!

I love this book! It's very interesting! I listened to the audio book and it is read in various tones of voices, that will engage you into the book even more! I couldn't stop listening to it!! I personally know someone who has struggled with things similar to the main character, Charlotte. Especially the way Charlotte had dealt with her pain, by cutting. It's very inspiring for anyone who self-harms. I believe this book could help those struggling. The author's conclusion of her personal experiences how she used to handle her own struggles, and how she too overcome it, brought me to tears (HAPPY tears). I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book to anyone and everyone!!

About the author

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.