Girl in Pieces

De: Kathleen Glasgow

Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Kathleen Glasgow

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

I loved it

holy cow I loved this book, it takes about what young people or older go through in everyday struggles what's it like to face challenges and how to over come them

Trigger warning! But still amazing!!

This book was incredible. I couldn’t stop listening to it, I was late to work because I just couldn’t turn it off. I self harm and this book was a bit of a trigger for me but I still absolutely loved it. I’ve never heard self harm explained so perfectly before. Most of the time when people ask me I just said that I can’t explain it... from now on I’ll guide them to this book. Thank you Kathleen for creating something so relatable and also inspiring.

Great story, writing and Narration!!

I really enjoyed this audiobook. It was one of those aware of the story, or near ration in the rain all came together in a magical way.

Great narrator

Julie is the best narrator. So soothing to listen to even in a dark subject matter

Well written, however a lot of F bombs.

Great story, although depressing at times. Tough content, but worth the read. Good character development.

beautiful

absolutely loved this! the way the story was written it helped me better understand those who self-harm. I myself am a recovering addict, and sometimes it's so hard to put into words the why... but this, this was incredibly written to provide a different view point, and to help me understand.

Blown Away

I'm sort of speechless after just finishing this audible. the pain and so mirroring of my own that it was a lulling and cathartic at first. The experiences and inner dialogue was written so brutally and so honestly. I knew this author could not have written what she did without having lived some of this type of pain and self harm. it's something that is so hard to ever share or feel with others. To put into words. So, to experience writing like this, to experience your own words and thoughts so profoundly in another's writing and in another's voice. Speechless. as a 30 something having lived similar strifes and pains, I was stuck between re-lived trauma, realizing others have the same inner dialogue, and the hope and need to shield Charlie. the characters were so rich. Charlie is just a baby and so many of us were teens when it all started. if only we could have known then that we weren't alone. if we could have put the feelings into words instead of pain. I hope this book reaches so many girls and women. I commend Kathleen for her amazing talent and her bravery. to take her pain and those of others, to create this and put it out there in the world. blown away.

Overall

This book was overall great! I felt connected as an X cutter I know the struggle with the urges and fighting them especially when things in life go wrong.

The Subject Matter

I loved the fact that this is something could put into words and relate I to so many people in this world! At moments it has it's triggers, but definitely helps you work through those triggers by having the therapeutic techniques wrote out in the book.

Every emotion

Wonderfully written. It tugs on your heart and helps remind us that we all just want to be loved and accepted