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A Thousand Broken Pieces

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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A Thousand Broken Pieces is a 2024 romance novel by Tillie Cole and the sequel to her prior novel, A Thousand Boy Kisses. A Thousand Broken Pieces is a romance novel, but it also treads into self-help and psychology, focusing on the trauma and grief of the characters. The novel is considered young adult fiction, reflecting the ages of both the characters and the recommended age of readers, which, for this novel, is 16 or older. Upon its release, A Thousand Broken Pieces topped Amazon’s list of Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction. A Thousand Boy Kisses was nominated for an award through Goodreads.

The novel follows Savannah Litchfield, the younger sister of the protagonist of A Thousand Boy Kisses, Poppy, after Poppy’s death, as well as Cael Woods, a hockey player from Massachusetts who recently lost his brother, Cillian, to suicide. Cael, Savannah, and four other teens embark on a grief therapy trip around the world under the guidance of two therapists, Leo and Mia. Their journey explores themes of The Necessity of Emotional Vulnerability, blurred text
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