Girl In Pieces Finished...
Charlotte goes with a couple of her co-workers who are grandchildren of a man that lives in New Mexico. The old man (Felix) is into art just like Ariel & Tony from the Gallery back in Tuscon. The whole time she's there. In the beginning. Charlotte recovers from what unfolded the other night. But toward the end of her stay, she gets engulfed with your art once she continues it. The man Felix has a beautiful house with an enormousness art studio with many rooms that have features of their own. She finished some pages of her work and returns home to Tuscon where her co-workers from her job get surprised she's back. The place closed due to Riley stealing money from the night counts. Julie, sister also Boss of the place took some ideas from Charlotte to rebrand the place in order for it to recover from the damage done by Riley. Riley is up in a rehab facility in a non-mentioned state. Wendy, the girl he was fucking went to the hospital and the lady he stole the car from on that night wants to press charges for theft.
While Charlotte is on a computer (I think at her house I can't remember?), she gets a message from her new facebook account by an old friend that goes by Evan. He informs here that Seed House was shut down and "Fucking Frank" got arrested for sex trafficking of minors & drugs.
Further, we learn of Ellis being alive having survived her suicide attempt because there was a night that Riley was able to be released for a short temporary time for a cancer benefit concert due to a relative dying, assumingly Julie's mom. The women that owned the car that Riley wrecked decided to let off on pressing charges if Riley decided to perform at the concert in Tuscon. So he does and while he's there he makes it up to Charlotte. Charlotte has a song performed about her, for her and he's clean. Not dirty, sobered up and hands Charlotte a piece of paper while they were on stage. With his real name on it since he remembered Charlotte being curious of it. Before this happened. Felix the grandfather of Charlotte's two coworkers offers Charlotte a job to be an artist assistant back at his house in New Mexico. He is currently in New York and wanted to meet her there to discuss her position and new life. Felix knows about everything that happened but also knows her ambition to become talented with art. It's because he saw the pages of her drawings she left at the gallery show of the night of the incidents. The book ends with her reminiscing about her past friends, Casper, and her now dead friend Louisa while the plane she's on takes off to New York to meet Felix.
Really good book. Would read again. The author in her notes mentions the reason she wrote the book. For cutters and how she used to do it. Why it happens and the meaning of the self-harming acts.
I haven't had a book tug at my heart strings before and this one did just that. It's grim, dark... but it has great ending that all fell into place shortly after a tragic incident. I recommend this to anyone into grim, dark, physiological shit like this. Even though I spoiled most of it already.