From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you’re surrounded by darkness that Karen M. McManus, the New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, calls “rare and powerful.”Here is what happens when your mother dies.It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outside. It’s dark in your … what happens when your mother dies.
It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outside. It’s dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.
That’s how it feels for Tiger. It’s always been Tiger and her mother against the world. Then, on a day like any other, Tiger’s mother dies. And now it’s Tiger, alone.
Here is how you learn to make friends with the dark.
”Stunning and beautifully written.”-HelloGiggles
”A rare and powerful novel, How to Make Friends with the Dark dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace.” —Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret
”Breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe
Praise for Kathleen Glasgow’s Girl in Pieces
”Girl, Interrupted meets Speak.” –Refinery29.com
”One of the most affecting novels we have read.” –Goop.com
”A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page.” –Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star
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How to Make Friends with the Dark is breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart. It’s for all of us who have loved and lost and need to find our power again.
Kathleen Glasgow is the rare type of skilled storyteller that knows you have to hurt your characters before putting them back together. I loved every word of this lyrical and devastating novel.
A bold, fearlessly crafted story of loss and love. Kathleen Glasgow’s prose commands the page with its trademark beauty and grace, and Tiger Tolliver is a character readers will root for every step of the way — and won’t soon forget.
Gripping, powerful, and full of truth — an emotional level many novelists strive to reach, but few achieve.
A visceral, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking take on the grieving process. I cried within the first fifty pages. You’ll want to hug Tiger and never let her go. Kathleen has done it again!
A book as fierce, tender, and rare as its aptly named heroine, Tiger. How to Make Friends with the Dark is a gorgeously nuanced meditation on grief and family, and the incredible love that can pull you through the darkest of times.
“It’s sort of like that poem: I thought I was done with death, at least a little bit, but death wasn’t done with me.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
Wow. Just wow. Kathleen Glasgow, you blew my mind with this miracle of a book.
The last story to dive this deep into all-consuming grief was Breathing Under Water by Sophie Hardcastle. I never thought I’d find something that explained death and the aftereffects of it so well after reading Hardcastle’s take on it, but I was wrong. SO SO WRONG. Youuu, Kathleen Glasgow, are a PRO, and I can’t decide if I want to love you or hate you. As I was laying in bed reading this book, I got that godforsaken ache in my throat when I’m trying really hard not to cry. During that moment, I absolutely hated you. But now, as I’m thinking about all the wonderful, heart-shattering moments I got to experience with the main character, Tiger, I fudging LOVE YOU.
I will admit, understanding Tiger at the beginning was challenging, but then everything clicked into place and I was able to see things from her perspective. She just lost her mother – the person who made her teenage emotions rage when she bought her an ugly thrift store dress for the school dance, the person who loved her with her whole goddamn heart, even when it was hard to give her a ‘normal’ teenage experience. When that happens, you’re allowed to slip up and act out, but only if you’re able to pick yourself back up and continue living. As mentioned in this book, grief doesn’t get better or disappear, you learn to live with it as it follows you around like a ghost tracing your every step. And that’s exactly why I fell in love with this book – the author writes it as a lasting thing when other authors typically let it fade into the background within the first couple of chapters.
How to Make Friends with the Dark was refreshing and heartbreaking in one, and getting to grow with Tiger was absolutely stunning.
A rare and powerful novel, How to Make Friends with the Dark dives deep into the heart of grief and healing with honesty, empathy, and grace.
In this raw, powerful, and heartbreaking meditation on loss and grief, Glasgow writes with unflinching beauty. We meet Tiger Tolliver at her most broken — at her darkest moment — and yet, somehow, How to Make Friends with the Dark teaches us how to let the light in.
Beautifully written and profoundly moving. From page one, Tiger Tolliver grabs your heart with her pain, her courage, her humor — and she doesn’t let go. Tiger, Cake, and Thaddeus (and Mae-Lynn, and Shayna, and Lupe, and LaLa, and Sarah, and Leonard, and June… all of Glasgow’s deeply wrought characters) will stay with me for a long time to come.
From the very beginning of this book, tears streamed down my face, uncontrollably. No matter where I was; at my house, at work or our in the world, I couldn’t put this book down or stop crying. Kathleen Glasgow has brought to life the feeling of loss in such a gripping, realistic way that it only makes sense that she has felt this kind of loss in her own personal life. The cover is gorgeous, the story is addicting and you won’t be able to put it down. Thank you NetGalley for gifting me this book.
Lyrical, devastating, witty and raw — this is Kathleen Glasgow at her best. Her fans will not be disappointed to fall in love with Tiger Tolliver, no matter how much she breaks their hearts.
Magnificent. A beautiful, heartbreaking alleluia to survival.
This story hauls you into its heart to live the pain in all its careening, messy, and miraculous glory. A brilliant, honest, raw look at what it really means to lose someone essential and make grudging peace with what is gained in the exchange. You will never forget Tiger Tolliver. Not ever.