“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.”