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Destiny can't count on anyone but herself.
Her mother has struggled with addiction for all of Destiny's life, moving them from town to town, bad boyfriend to bad boyfriend—including a particularly dark period in Texas, where Destiny ended up in a psychiatric hospital. But Destiny's mother is newly sober and stable. And Destiny is falling in love.
Destiny never believed in happily ever after, but that doesn't stop her confidence from fraying when the first guy she ever trusted casually shatters her heart. Spiraling hard, she tells a tiny, desperate lie to buy herself a moment of hope. But as the lie grows and the pressures tangle, she gets lost in her own deception, and the line between truth and fantasy starts to blur.
With time untethered and her perception in knots, Destiny must find a way to reclaim her story and weave a new ending—before its beginnings unravel.
"Be careful of the story you tell yourself. It might become the one you believe."
"The complexity of the subject matter is matched by the delicacy of the language, and the raw authenticity of the characters' feelings makes for a breathless, mesmerizing tale that's presented with care and awareness of its sensitive topics...An emotionally immediate yet ethereal and darkly fantastical tale woven through with threads that ring all too true." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Alternating clipped chapters and dreamy poetry culminate in a deceptively compact novel about learning to live, not just survive." —Publishers Weekly
"Stitched together with fragments of a dark fairytale, the book boldly portrays how damaging addiction and mental health issues can be not onlyto those with them but also to their loved ones." —Booklist
"Fans of dark fairy tales, unreliable narrators, and psychology will be drawn in to Destiny's twisted web of lies and half-truths." —SLJ
"Girl Reflected in Knife is simply jaw-dropping. It is brave and unblinking, imaginative and revelatory. Here is a true fractured fairy tale in every sense, showing the immense power in the stories you tell to yourself and the stories you need to believe in order to survive." —Nova Ren Suma, New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us and Wake the Wild Creatures
"Girl Reflected in Knife is beautiful and haunting, the kind of book that nests inside you, the kind of book you make space for and talk about and shove into the hands of everyone you know." —Shaun David Hutchinson, award winning author of We Are the Ants
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Anica Mrose Rissi is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books for kids and teens, including picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and YA. Her essays have been published by The Writer and The New York Times, and she plays fiddle in and writes lyrics for the band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves. Anica grew up in Maine and spent many years in New York City, where she worked as an executive editor in children's book publishing. She currently lives in central New Jersey with her very good dog, Sweet Potato.
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