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Pieces of a girl

"Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story o...

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Main Author: Kuehnert, Stephanie, 1979- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
Subjects:
Kuehnert, Stephanie, > 1979- > Young adult nonfiction.
Teenage girls > Conduct of life > Young adult nonfiction.
Interpersonal relations in adolescence > Young adult nonfiction.
Drug abuse > Young adult nonfiction.
Autobiographies > Young adult.
Summary: "Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape." --
Physical Description: 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780147517715
0147517710
9780525429753
0525429751
Author Notes: Stephanie Kuehnert got her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in eighth grade. In high school, she discovered punk rock and produced several D.I.Y. feminist zines. She received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. Her first YA novel, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone , was published by MTV Books in July 2008, and her second, Ballads of Suburbia was published in July 2009. In addition to writing novels, she is a teacher and was a staff writer for ROOKIE, the acclaimed online magazine for teenage girls. Stephanie lives in Seattle with her husband and two cats.

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