Kathleen Glasgow

As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

Girl in pieces

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 Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. 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.

Girl in Pieces

Atli 💗🧚🏽‍♀️

it is hard enough being a girl in the world, but try being a girl with scars on your skin in the world. 

She had skin like mine. Feeling my eyes on her, she hastily slid down her sleeve, cloaking her thin, fresh red scars from view.

I can’t tell you how much wanted to pull up my own sleeves and say, “I’m just like you! Look! You are not alone.”

“Riley, we have to stop. You have to stop. I don’t want you to die, Riley. Please, stop. I don’t want you to die. Will you stop?” 

 I’m tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?

She said, “Don’t be scared, little one.” 

I wasn’t scared. I’d just never seen a girl with skin like mine.

A drunk and a drunk met and they made a mess: me. I was born with a broken heart.

Cutting is a fence you build upon your own body to keep people out but then you cry to be touched. But the fence is barbed.

oh my god... why do i have a feeling this isn't going to end well. i just want charlie to find peace man :/

I am dark, dark, all dark. I have to cut it out, this thing in me that thought I could be better.

this conversation wasn't supposed to be this profound 😭😭

I guess you can't really get rid of what you used to be. It kinda sticks to you. 

I have a little money and I’m staying at Mikey’s place. It’s not the greatest, but at least it isn’t outside. I found a job, too, washing dishes. I guess that’s what I’m good for.

My mother is alive, but she’s a ghost, too, her sunken eyes watching me from a distance, her body very still.

There are so many people who are never coming back

“Michael. He’s a man, call him by his man’s name, girl.”

For years no one had wanted me. For years I’d been pushed around, yelled at, made fun of, and now, now I had two beautiful people who’d picked me. Me.

“It’s counterintuitive, yes? That hurting yourself makes you feel better. That somehow you can rid yourself of pain by causing yourself pain.”

I cut because I can’t deal. It’s as simple as that. [...] I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world hurts me. 

Makayla Whitt

while I say sadness what I really mean is black hole inside me filled with nails and rocks and broken glass and the words I don't have anymore 

this book is for every broken heart searching for a home

Alesha Clifford

There are so many people who are never coming back.

Oliver

School, it turns out, is super easy once you remove all the other kids, asshole teachers, and disgusting shit that goes on.

Robyn Harley

I cut because I can't deal. It's as simple as that. The world beComes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself. 

Jazz

“I want to help you get better, and I will, but I can only help you if you want to be helped.” 

«Tutto quello che si rompe, comprese le persone, si può aggiustare. Ecco come la penso io.» A soli diciassette anni, Charlotte Davis ha già trovato un rimedio per calmare la sofferenza che prova. Per non pensare all'amato padre che ormai non è più con lei, per non pensare alla sua migliore amica che l'ha lasciata, per non pensare a una madre che da molto tempo non la capisce, a Charlie basta avere a portata di mano un pezzo di vetro. Un coccio di bottiglia, un gesto secco, un taglio sulla pelle: e dentro si fa largo una specie di sollievo. Charlie è ricoverata in un istituto psichiatrico di St. Paul, nel Minnesota, un microcosmo abitato da altre ragazze come lei, ragazze sole, ognuna un mondo da decifrare, ognuna intrappolata in un diverso dolore. Boccioli di donne ancora troppo chiusi, duri, terrorizzati dall'aprirsi alla vita, sprovvisti di misure di difesa e dunque trascinati via dalla corrente dell'autolesionismo. Le ragazze tra di loro si prendono in giro, si raccontano, immaginano il futuro, c'è chi vorrebbe uscire di lì e chi invece vuole restare al riparo di quelle mura. Charlie, al momento delle dimissioni, non sa dove andare, dato che la madre non la vuole con sé. Sarà allora nella lontana Arizona, dove il sole è rovente e un amico l'aspetta, che potrà provare a riconquistare uno spazio di gioia e nuovi progetti. Il lavoro in una tavola calda e certi inattesi incontri sono linfa benefica, ma quel suo debole entusiasmo viene deluso in fretta: per ricominciare davvero, allora, cosa serve? E poi ci sono io è una storia viscerale, aspra e dolce come i diciassette anni di Charlie, un romanzo che parla di adolescenza con onestà, guardando dritto negli occhi di chi pensa di non farcela e crede di essere destinato a scivolare per sempre; è una storia fatta di cadute, improvvise speranze e ripartenze, che ci ricorda quello che siamo stati e quale coraggio serve per riprendere la strada.

E poi ci sono io

Sara D'Anna 

Il mio corpo è il mio più grande nemico. Vuole, vuole, vuole e quando non ottiene quello che vuole, piange, piange e piange.

Summer Robinson

I wasn't scared.I'd just never seen a girl whit skin like mine.

This is just my personal opinion I found it boring and I sometimes couldn’t understand what was going on

Priya kohli

Věra Douděrová 

I really liked the writing of Kathleen Glasgow, it is pleasant to read. The storyline is very touching and heartwarming and it gives you a new outlook on a so important topic, which needs way more awareness.

However i think in chapter 2, which is most of the book, the plot is moving slowly (in a good way, because the focus is on describing Charlies thoughts and feelings) but then in chapter 3 it’s moving very fast and suddenly everything and everyone in her life is changing to the good and getting better. Although this gives the book a nice ending and leaves you with a „good“ feeling i think it seems a bit unrealistic and it comes a bit too fast. 

All in all i highly recommend this book and hope many people will read it and raise awareness for this topic. 

Safia 🤍

I really liked the writing of Kathleen Glasgow, it is pleasant to read. The storyline is very touching and heartwarming and it gives you a new outlook on a so important topic, which needs way more awareness.

However i think in chapter 2, which is most of the book, the plot is moving slowly (in a good way, because the focus is on describing Charlies thoughts and feelings) but then in chapter 3 it’s moving very fast and suddenly everything and everyone in her life is changing to the good and getting better. Although this gives the book a nice ending and leaves you with a „good“ feeling i think it seems a bit unrealistic and it comes a bit too fast. 

All in all i highly recommend this book and hope many people will read it and raise awareness for this topic. 

don't talk to me cause i literally feel like all my energy and soul have been sucked out of me pffft. i'm going to stay in bed and cry while "making the bed” and  "logical" from GUTS play on a loop in the background.  k bye.

[review coming soon]

don't talk to me cause i literally feel like all my energy and soul have been sucked out of me pffft. i'm going to stay in bed and cry while "making the bed” and  "logical" from GUTS play on a loop in the background.  k bye.

This book is very well written. It’s awe-inspiring. The feelings and emotions are described perfectly.

HOWEVER! Before you read this make sure you are aware of the topics it covers and how it does that. This book is a living, breathing trigger. Make sure you are in the right headspace to read this, especially if you have firsthand experience with the topics discussed in Charlie’s story.

Kyra

Always remember: You are not alone.

This book is very well written. It’s awe-inspiring. The feelings and emotions are described perfectly.

HOWEVER! Before you read this make sure you are aware of the topics it covers and how it does that. This book is a living, breathing trigger. Make sure you are in the right headspace to read this, especially if you have firsthand experience with the topics discussed in Charlie’s story.

Julie Rubens

I find it very hard to rate this book and I honestly have no idea why. 

I think it’s a very wel written book that really shows how everyone’s story is different and focuses on the importance of having people to rely on and to help you. I like how well Charlie’s thought spirals and anxiety attacks were written and I just found it an important story over all.

Saffana Nuraulia

a 2 1/2 actually bc what the heck did i just read it’s nothing enticing fawk i regret spending most of my time for thsi book

it was such a heartbreaking but meaningful story 

chelsea lytton

deva

go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic

i won't stop recommending this book to my friends!!!! this book is very beautiful, a 10/10,  this book hurts me in a very good way. i loveee it, best book everrrrrr!! BUT it contains a lotttttttt of trigger warnings so read the TW carefullyyyyy don't let this book trigger youu

la☆

been dwelling in my shelf to finish this one as i can acknowledge it as my crack diary. this book definitely would trigger you in so many ways since kathleen really wrote that bluntly (as most of her writing as well) but that.. that makes this book become really special. i always take my break to look for some air or glass of water every after one chapter since it will drained your whole energy, also close this book as a raw flesh right below my hands; too gentle, too fragile, too beautiful as the difference of my own skin.

4,5 of 5 ⭐️ from m

The amount of detail and emotion honestly made me cry at points. After Charlie was in the car after having her really bad relapse left me In tears. The emotions I felt was unbearable. I wish I could read it for the first time again 

Madison tidwell

Arianna

so the story in general was kind of hard to get into, but I really liked the ending so I rounded up from a 3 to a 4

It wasn’t bad. It definitely didn’t live up to its hype though. I couldn’t finish it. It was very slow.

abbie danielle ☕️

Nina Verhaaff 

It’s amazing how someone could describe how it is to have a body with scars and how people deal with it. It’s a personal story but with some twists. There are always good and bad times and this book made me realize a lot of things, it made me think about my life too.
I didn’t like all of the characters but that’s okay cause you can’t like all of them. 
Self harm is a real problem and I’m just so glad people are finally able to talk about these problems and hopefully don’t feel so alone in their journey to let’s say recovery.

This was hard and so tragically beautiful 

Pia 

Melissa Palmer

Book #90 Read in 2016
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

Charlie is a 17 year old who manages her pain by cutting herself. As the book opens, Charlie is in a mental ward. Insurance runs out and her mother boots her to the curb. Charlie heads to Arizona to her friend Mikey's place and gets a job as a dishwasher in a coffeehouse. Will she be able to make it on her own? Will she be able to resist hurting herself? This book is emotionally brutal and raw but is one that a reader will not be able to put down. I received a copy of this book from Amazon Vine in exchange for a honest review.

Raven K

This book left me speechless..❤️ (In a good way!)

honya

OMG THIS BOOK WAS SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER I CANT EVEN!! it had plot twists that i would’ve never seen coming and the ending was SO PERFECT AGHHHHH😩

Kiia📖

becky oh

Linn jäverfelt 

The book was very good and sad. I was sad when it ended

hannah johnson

I didn’t love it but I did like this book. It was a good read to understand a different life and be a little less ignorant.

Girl in pieces

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