So hopefully, that informs your age-appropriate range.
Generally, if a reader can understand the language and the subject matter, I think they should be able to read the book.Īccording to WebMD, most adolescents begin self-harming when they are 14 years old, but more recently, the ages of young people self-harming has gone down to around 11 or 12 years old. I hesitate to recommend an age-appropriate range for Girl In Pieces because I don’t want to discourage anyone from reading a book that seems interesting to them. I think that adolescents should read as much and as widely as possible. There is also minimal exposition regarding Charlie’s abusive mother and Charlie’s relationship with her father.Īnd the lack of exposition takes away from the overall enjoyment of Girl In Pieces. Moreover, Girl In Pieces included too many underdeveloped characters and underdeveloped plot lines.įor instance, there is minimal discussion of Charlie’s relationship with Mikey and Ellis. And with Girl In Pieces, whenever some contrived new coincidence came into view, I was repeatedly reminded that I was reading. Obviously, an author plots everything that happens in a book - an author necessarily needs to decide to include it in the story - but the mark of good storytelling is when the reader forgets that they are reading in the first place. As if Glasgow put them in the novel specifically to get Charlie from A to B to C and so on. Most of the events that push the story forward felt utterly inorganic. Where the book really fell apart for me was with the plot. In other words, Girl In Pieces is a book that is more concerned about the message it was trying to convey than it was about creating a well-crafted novel.
#GIRL IN PIECES MOVIE#
When I first read it, I described it as what you’d get if a Disney Channel Original Movie fucked a Lifetime Original Movie. Girl In Pieces is an example of a novel that was just doing too much for me. She begins an ill-fated romance with him.Ĭharlie also finds herself an apartment in a bad neighborhood, albeit a small, shabby one.įrom there, the reader gets to follow Charlie navigating life to find a healthier way to live for herself. Her father committed suicide, her best friend, Ellis, attempted self-harming but cut too deep and is functionally brain-dead, and her mother is abusive and kicked her out of the house.Ĭharlie herself also self-harms, and after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Charlie ends up in a psychiatric hospital with other teen girls around her age who also self-harm in various ways.Īnd that’s just the first part of the novel.Īfter the mental hospital discharges Charlie, she moves to Arizona to be with her friend Mikey - for whom she has romantic feelings, even though he always liked their friend Ellis more.Ĭharlie gets a job at a local cafe, where she meets Riley, a washed-up rock star. The novel follows Charlie, a teenage girl who has been through too much. Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow is her 2016 debut young adult novel. Content Warnings: self-harm, sexual assault, parental abuse, suicide, death of a parent, attempted suicide, drug use + abuse, abusive romantic relationship, alcoholism.
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