Girl in Pieces: The million-copy TikTok sensation

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Sixteen is a time where you try to define yourself as a person. But now that Tiger is sixteen she’s finding that her mother has a ton of control over her. When it comes to her mother handling just about everything in her life, Tiger’s finding it to be suffocating in nature. She’s doing the best that she can to try and put up with it, but sometimes she just wants to be an individual and not have her mom running her life like a CEO or something. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona. She has lived in New Mexico, Arizona, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with her M.F.A. While she was there, she also coordinated the creative writing graduate program. Her favorite books when she was growing up were A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. She always wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Her favorite time to write in in the morning when she has already had some coffee and can look at the birds out the window. She likes to search for vintage prom dresses online from the fifties and really likes pepperoni.

I can't tell you how much I wanted to pull up my own sleeves and say, "I'm just like you! Look! You are not alone." Tiger does her best and finds that there are people out there that she can rely on. She makes her own type of family with people who are related to her and people who are not. They’re the ones that are going to be with her, and Tiger finds out that she has a lot more love around her than she imagined. They’re part of the journey moving forward along with her. This book introduces readers to Charlie Davis, the main character. She’s a young woman at 17 years old and is struggling in a big way. She’s been dealing with a lot of emotional issues for a while. Now she’s falling to pieces and trying to get through it all. She’s already lost so much that she’s in a state of deep emotional pain. One of the ways that she gets through it all is by cutting herself. I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”Equal parts keen-eyed empathy, stark candor, and terrible beauty. This book is why we read stories: Even though Charlie and her friends have some serious issues, there are a lot of positive takeaways from the story: It's OK to work through issues slowly, which sometimes can mean focusing on getting through the next 10 minutes. It's hard to start a new life, but you can make changes and progress. Sometimes you have to create your own family and support network if your own family can't be there for you. It's good to open yourself up to others and ask for help, even if it sometimes results in getting hurt. Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright. In the podcast’s first season, she’s covering the true crime case she solved last year, and then season two will go into something else. However, this all changes because one of her classmates approaches her and says someone has gone missing in the small village where she lives. So she thinks that everyone thinks she is the only one who can solve it because the police are doing a crappy job as usual.

I think u are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when u don’t know how to be.” Once my mother hit my ear so hard I heard the howling of trains for a week,” says 17-year-old Charlie Davies, in one of the book’s many crystal clear descriptions of abuse. When we meet Charlie she is resident in Creeley, a treatment centre in Minnesota for teenage girls who self-harm.Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Charlie gets put in the mental facility after they release her from the hospital. I felt like she was slowly starting to find a little bit of herself. And then they just release her, I mean can we not focus on taking care of OUR people! Like an orphan, I came here with no clothes. Like an orphan, I was wrapped in a bedsheet and left on the lawn of Regions Hospital in the freezing sleet and snow, blood seeping through the flowered sheet. 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. It took me almost 2 exhausting months to get through this book, and it was worth every second. I'm so glad I took my time reading this. This book was so raw and heart wrenching but most of all beautiful. It was so hard to read at times that I had to take so many breaks to recover from what i read and just breathe in! Breathe out! I’m a weeping mess.

The plot never felt slow- even if it may have felt slow at times, I just couldn't stop reading. The book captivated me, hooked me in like a fish on a line, and I couldn't stop. I'm glad I didn't, because this book is just....I don't even know. Sorry. A high school girl and her friend deal with problems, and the girl want to know her friend’s brother for a reason. Then in the latter half of the book, when they are out, they both struggle to come to terms with what happened in their captivity. It is not only the trauma of being kidnapped and held hostage by a serial killer but what bond that was formed. That affects Dean’s relationship with his fiancee, Cora, and her sister’s relationship, as a whole messes up the situation. I am eighteen years old, and I have struggled with mental health and self-harm for many years. This book is very real. Living in Tucson, Arizona, the author currently writes for Garrison Keillor's radio show, The Writer's Almanac. Girl in Pieces was written during arts fellowships over the past eight years. Glasgow says her aim was to write an uplifting personal story that would inspire hope in anyone affected by self-harm. She has without a doubt achieved this. "There is the person people see on the outside and then there is the person on the inside and then, even farther down, is that other, buried person, a naked and silent creature, not used to light." In her debut novel, Glasgow mines the darkness and, ultimately, offers the glimmer of recovery. Sarah Gilmartin

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I'm sorry if this review is odd, it's just incredibly difficult for me to review books like this, especially ones that had an impact or made me think/feel a lot. It was hard to come up with what to say, what words to use, but here it is. If I apologized a lot throughout this, I'm sorry. That doesn't help my case, but I honestly do not know what to say. But anyways, thanks for reading, let me know what you think because I just feel odd right now and can't think at all 😅 Kathleen Glasgow: her aim was to write an uplifting personal story that would inspire hope in anyone affected by self-harm and she has achieved it. A teacher faces her anxiety, and her student has OCD. For a reason, he kidnaps his teacher, and a relationship forms. When she’s cutting, the reality of the pain is able to make all of the pain and sadness that she’s feeling go away. Cutting lets her get to the place where it’s all not bothering her and there’s nothing remaining but a calm feeling. She doesn’t focus on things that are too tough to feel but she still feels all the time. One of these things is her father, or that thing that happened under the bridge. In this story, the main character is a young girl named Tiger. She’s just sixteen years old and is like any other girl her age. When it comes to her life, she’s always been close with her mother. She’s been her entire world for some time now. But things are starting to change slowly as she continues to grow up.