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Addeddate 2022-12-10 04:44:12 Identifier girl-in-pieces-by-glasgow-kathleen Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28jsm8x5b0 Ocr tesseract 5. I also felt like the author could have clarified a few things to us that are mentioned a lot in the book.
She allows an opportunity to take free art classes slip away because she does not want to be away from Riley, though she knows he is too troubled himself to be a consistent positive influence on her. All the characters -- even the minor ones -- are well-drawn and complicated people, which makes the reader invested in the story and the outcome. Stinson, the therapist at the hospital, is patient, caring, and helpful with Charlie, even after Charlie is discharged. The book is on the long side and would have benefited from more details about Charlie's backstory with her mom and dad, but her journey will stay with readers long after they've finished the book. As a means of coping, she cuts / self-harming herself to release it and continuously do it until she finds peace.Cut out the man in the underpass, cut out Fucking Frank, the men downstairs; the people on the street with too many people inside them, cut out hungry, and sad and tired, and being nobody and unpretty and unloved, just cut it all out, get smaller and smaller until I was nothing.
She keeps a cutting kit with broken glass, bandages, and ointment as a backup if she needs release and cannot find it through healthy means, though she hides it out of easy reach. In general, the characters are wonderfully drawn, and although this novel is nothing like Code Name Verity, I think I might recommend it to folks who enjoyed that one. There is an incident where Dani gets stuck in an elevator during a fire drill, and Zaf rescues her and carries her out fireman style. I'm just gonna admit it, I know nothing about cutters and I truly don't understand how pain makes someone feel better. Whether it's dealing with self-harm like the protagonist Charlotte, or an ED, or depression, or chronic illness, or alcohol addiction, or ANYTHING, recovery has no endpoint.
Charlie went through so much in this book, that I just wanted to hold her, and tell her everything’s going to be alright. Charlie encounters many caring people during her time in treatment and afterward, though she's not always immediately receptive to their attention. She ends up finding a job washing dishes, moves into her own place (not a very nice one) and gets with some older man who is on his own downward spiral. Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King
"Raw, visceral, and starkly beautiful, with writing that is at times transcendent in its brilliance.
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