"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...

This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining--Studs Terkel.

Presents the experiences of a child who became a man helping his father on their Iowa homestead and of a young man who literally carved out a home for his family on the Kansas prairie.

The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.