Summary Of Kathleen Glasgow's Girl In Pieces

“Girl In Pieces” by Kathleen Glasgow is a fictional novel about a young woman named Charlotte Davis and her hectic journey of becoming comfortable in her own skin. You can read more about Kathleen Glasgow and her debut novel at https://www.kathleenglasgowbooks.com/ . Glasgow takes her readers on a hauntingly beautiful adventure, discovering the life of a teenage girl on the verge of losing herself and the journey she must take to survive. Charlotte has lost more in her seventeen years than most people lose in their entire life and she has learned to deal with her pain by creating her own, however, one cut just a little bit too deep sends her life into a spiral of change. After Charlie’s brush with death, she is sent to a psychiatric hospital
The memorable characters become like close friends to the reader, causing them to feel exactly as the character does. Charlie goes through a life of pain and sorrow as she experiences abuse, homelessness, and loss of family and friends, all things that readers may be able to relate to and connect with. Charlie’s disastrous coping mechanism of self-harm is also something that many young readers have brought themselves into doing, or maybe still are. If you struggle with self harm, please take a look at the links and numbers at the bottom of the page. As Charlie goes on her journey of recovery, her strength and determination can rub onto readers giving them inspiration to turn their own lives around. The novel is extremely real and raw, the intense situations that Charlie has had to go through reach out to readers and give them a greater understanding of the world around them. Although there are many delightful things in this world, there are also many horrible things and sometimes we prefer to shut those things out. After reading the book, readers may have a sudden sense of realization of what is going on in the lives of the people around