“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