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Side note: I’m a much bigger fan of the Australian cover. Just in case you missed the hint in the title, we added some blood red slashes on a fleshy-pink background! I received a US ARC of the book, and the cover further deepened my suspicions that Girl in Pieces would be primarily a story designed to educate its reader about capital-I Issues. The title sounds like that of a Degrassi High episode about self-harm, which wasn’t a great start.

In high school, I was completely obsessed with both Kaysen’s memoir and the 1999 film adaptation, and because I’m a total sucker for ‘if you like this, try this’ comparisons, I was peachy keen to read Girl in Pieces. HarperCollins, who publish the title here in Australia, have hailed Girl in Pieces as ‘A Girl, Interrupted for a new generation’ (although, it’s worth noting that while Glasgow discusses her experiences with mental illness in her author’s note, Girl in Pieces is fiction, while Girl, Interrupted is non-fiction). However, not everyone she meets has her best interests at heart and building a new life isn’t as easy as it seems. She gets a job washing dishes at a local cafe, finds a room to rent and even starts to make a few friends. When an old friend offers her his apartment in Tucson while his band’s on tour, Charlie readily accepts.

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When her grandmother’s insurance (which is paying for her hospital stay) is abruptly cut off, well before Charlie feels ready to rejoin the wider world, she doesn’t know what to do. The only way she knows how to cope is by hurting herself, but she’s determined not to fall back into destructive habits.

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She has no home and no support network, just a head full of bad memories from losing her best friend and trying to survive on the streets. When seventeen-year-old Charlotte wakes up in hospital following a violent suicide attempt, her life is in pieces. 2016) is a raw and intimate portrait of a young woman learning to live again. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together.By turns harrowing and heartwarming, Kathleen Glasgow’s Girl in Pieces (Delacorte Press, Aug. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. But she's learned how to forget it through cutting the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. At seventeen, she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime.

'A haunting, beautiful and necessary book' Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything A Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016 | A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens in 2016| An Amazon Best YA Books of 2016 A heartbreaking, triumphant, funny and hopeful story of one girl's battle with self harm.