So how does it feel to look at myself so young, surviving the sorts of things that make people ask why I am still alive? Grateful. Whole. Seen. Part of the constellation of the human experience. One of the girls who grew up too fast. One of the girls who really was just a nerd, a weirdo at heart, One of the girls who lived. 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 become a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape.