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What Are Kathleen Glasgow's Girl In Pieces?
Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow is a novel taking place in today’s society. The author wrote this novel as a fictional novel, although she had experienced depression and self-harm as a young woman. The book portrays alcoholics, drug addicts, the homeless, and others struggling to get through life. Kathleen Glasgow gives each character a role of a struggle mentioned and wraps them together in one story as they affect one another.
The major setting of the story is taken place in Tucson, Arizona. Some minor settings are the True Grit Coffeehouse, hospital, the rehab center, and Charlie’s house. The protagonist of the story is a seventeen year old girl named Charlie Davis. The antagonist is Riley West, a singer and worker at True Grit.

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