What Are Kathleen Glasgow's Girl In Pieces?

Could you imagine losing your father, best friend, and mother? How about living with a loving family to living on the streets? I am reading Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow and I finished the book. The main character and 17-year-old, Charlotte or Charlie Davis lived a sufficient life up until all hell broke loose. It first started with the drowning of her father, which turned her own mother abusive, resulting in Charlie living a life of drugs, alcohol, cutting, and later depression after the comatose of her best friend Ellis. Set in the modern time where guys and girls go to high school either stressed, depressed or tired, Charlotte Davis goes from high school to the streets to a treatment facility and lastly to being all on her own in a

“The paintings are so large and dark, except for those tiny sprays of light. They make me… they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don’t know, like weighted down, but then those little patches… Those little parts that stick off? It seems like the darkness is almost trying to leave the whole thing, because the little light is back there, and it’s turning its back on the light” (Glasgow 133-134). While trying to visualize the painting, Charlie’s thinking made me feel sad and alone. The author had the chance to have Charlie say that the painting made her feel sad but instead she had Charlie dig deep into her heart and communicate with the readers. Later on in the book, Charlie discovers the reasoning behind Ariel’s dark paintings. Another scene that Glasgow conveys is when Charlie receives appalling news. This part of the book was an immense turning point that was full of a silent chaos. “Oh my god. What did you do? Why did you do this again, Blue? The pipe is on the floor, by her bare knees. A long cascade of drool is hanging from her chin. Something flickers in her eyes; a grief suddenly etches itself over her face, drawing down the skin of