Girl in Pieces
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Fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places will love this New York Times bestseller. "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 and The Sun Is Also a Star 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. “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 And don’t miss Kathleen Glasgow's newest novel How to Make Friends with the Dark, which Karen M. McManus, the New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, calls "rare and powerful."
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I loved this book. I went into it blind, I didn't check the trigger warnings, which I definitely recommend if you decide to read it. It is a very emotionally-heavy book, but it has an amazing ending. The entire book is amazing, just very graphic in ways.
I'm not sure a book like this will ever be a “safe” read for me. I hadn't realised what this book was about, just saw someone else had given it a good rating so in I jumped without reading the blurb (something I often do with e-book library books). Self-harming is like an addiction, a coping mechanism for me and I found this very triggering but also quite cathartic. Glasgow understands, she's been there. She doesn't apologise or excuse, she just presents Charlie as a complete person - not broken but slowly fixing. This book is full of people who've made mistakes, lost something or nearly fallen apart. Each one is searching for a way out of the mess they've found themselves in. There's so much positivity towards the end, Charlie's so young - I hope she does okay.
The author understands, she's been there, she's writing this to get a greater understanding and to support people like me who see every sharp edge as a possibility. I wear my scars with pride, they show my journey, Kintsugi.
A really hard read, but very good. A lot of trigger warnings in this book and it did not hold back in showing a very real and raw portrait of Charlie struggling, but that was no bad thing.
I liked the structure of the book very much, and felt the characters were full of emotion and personality. It was a very intense read, due to the subjects it covered, but I didn't feel it was too much. However I took a short break away for a few days as I needed to catch my breath before the end, then it immediately made me cry in the last 100 pages or so as I felt for Charlie so much, and all the characters by that point too.
Reading the author's note was important and interesting as well. I'll definitely pick up her other books and also return to ‘Girl, Interrupted' again as I started it earlier this year and reading this makes me want to finish it.
