“A rare and powerful novel, How to Make Friends with the Dark dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace.”
—KAREN M. McMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret
“In this raw, powerful, and heartbreaking meditation on loss and grief, Glasgow writes with unflinching beauty. We meet Tiger Tolliver at her most broken—at her darkest moment—and yet, somehow, How to Make Friends with the Dark teaches us how to let the light in.”
—JULIE BUXBAUM, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things
“How to Make Friends with the Dark is breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart. It’s for all of us who have loved and lost and need to find our power again.”
—JENNIFER NIVEN, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe
“A bold, fearlessly crafted story of loss and love. Kathleen Glasgow’s prose commands the page with its trademark beauty and grace, and Tiger Tolliver is a character readers will root for every step of the way
—and won’t soon forget.”
—COURTNEY SUMMERS, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie
“Kathleen Glasgow is the rare type of skilled storyteller that knows you have to hurt your characters before putting them back together. I
loved every word of this lyrical and devastating novel.”
—KARA THOMAS, author of The Cheerleaders
“A book as fierce, tender, and rare as its aptly named heroine, Tiger.
How to Make Friends with the Dark is a gorgeously nuanced meditation on grief and family, and the incredible love that can pull you through the darkest of times.”
—MEG LEDER, author of Letting Go of Gravity
“Beautifully written and profoundly moving. From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor—and she doesn’t let go. Tiger, Cake, and Thaddeus (and Mae-Lynn, and Shayna, and Lupe, and LaLa, and Sarah, and Leonard, and June…all of Glasgow’s deeply wrought characters) will stay with me for a long time to come.”