How to Make Friends with the Dark: From the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Girl in Pieces - Softcover

Glasgow, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786075644 ISBN 13: 9781786075642

Publisher: Rock the Boat, 2019

Synopsis

 

The story of an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake, and one girl’s emotional battle for clarity and forgiveness

Tiger’s mother has always been her whole world, but now she’s sixteen her mother’s control over everything in her life is suffocating. Just when Tiger feels she can no longer bear the way her life is managed, the unimaginable happens and her mother dies. As she slowly begins to make a way for herself, Tiger creates a new kind of family, some related and some not, who will love her and travel forward with her.

This is how you make friends with the dark.

About this title

Review:

‘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)

‘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)

‘Magnificent. A beautiful, heartbreaking alleluia to survival.’

(Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys)

‘A courageous and powerfully written book which will move readers to tears.’

(Books for Keeps)

‘Lyrical and emotionally complex.’

(Irish Times)

‘How to Make Friends with the Dark is 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.’ 

(Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie)

‘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.’

(Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, author of The Smell of Other People’s Houses)

‘Tiger Tolliver is so vulnerable and real, you’ll want to turn your porch light on and have the spare room ready for her. In How to Make Friends with the Dark, Kathleen Glasgow’s prose begs and pleads and grasps at the light, like a prayer.’

(Lygia Day Peñaflor, author of All of This is True)

‘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.’

(Julie Buxbaum, author of The Opposite of Love)

‘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.’

(Alyssa Sheinmel, New York Times bestselling author of A Danger to Herself and Others)

About the Author:

Kathleen Glasgow is the author of the New York Times bestseller Girl in Pieces, which has been published in 21 countries. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she works in an office by day and spins stories by night. You can find her on Twitter @kathglasgow, on Instagram as @misskathleenglasgow or on her website kathleenglasgowbooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rock the Boat
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1786075644
• ISBN 13: 9781786075642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432