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Authors: Kathleen Glasgow

Girl in Pieces

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“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,
Girl in Pieces
is a deeply affecting portrait of a young girl's determination to survive in a world that has abandoned her and a mind that seeks the release of emotional suffering through physical pain. 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
. Reading it is like removing your heart and leaving it in Glasgow's very skilled hands.”

—Kara Thomas, author of
The Darkest Corners


Girl in Pieces
has the breath of life; every character in it is fully alive. Charlie Davis's 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 of the
New York Times
bestseller
Dear Committee Members

“Kathleen Glasgow illuminates not only the anxiety of youth but the vulnerability and terror of life in general.
Girl in Pieces
hurts my heart in the best way possible.”

—Amanda Coplin, author of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Orchardist

“Charlie Davis's voice is diamond-beautiful and diamond-sharp, which, when strung together by a delicious story and memorable characters, creates a rare and powerful read. Kathleen Glasgow's
Girl in Pieces
is a treasure of a novel.”

—Swati Avasthi, author of
Split
and
Chasing Shadows

“An extraordinary coming-of-age story. An unsentimental and affecting tale of a girl who almost doesn't make it to adulthood.”

—Summer Wood, author of
Arroyo
and
Raising Wrecker

“Glasgow has written a
Girl, Interrupted
for a new generation. Her assured debut is a mad-girl story with new edges of intelligence, lyricism, and grit. From institutions to the streets to the secret razors we all keep, whether in our cupboards or our minds, 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 whether Charlie will heal, so fully immersed in hoping she does.”

—Michelle Wildgen, author of
Bread and Butter
and
You're Not You

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2016 by Kathleen Glasgow

Cover art copyright © 2016 by Jennifer Heuer

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Glasgow, Kathleen.

Title: Girl in pieces / Kathleen Glasgow.

Description: First edition. | New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] | Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte “Charlie” Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015044136 | ISBN 978-1-101-93471-5 (hardback) | ISBN 978-1-101-93472-2 (el) | ISBN 978-1-101-93473-9 (glb)

Subjects: | CYAC: Emotional problems—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Cutting (Self-mutilation)—Fiction. | Abandoned children—Fiction. | Sexual abuse—Fiction. | Homeless persons—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Issues / Sexual Abuse). | JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.G587 Gi 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

ebook ISBN 9781101934722

ISBN 9781524700805 (intl. tr. pbk.)

ebook ISBN 9781101934722

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