Kathleen Glasgow
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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You know, like what is addiction and how does it latch on to some people and not others? And what are those reasons behind it? And like I said, it's that thing inside you, like what happened to you? And she's stuck in this awful place with like parents who are fighting with each other. She's been parentified because she has to take care of her little sister and try to protect her.
And she's her grandmother, who's the person who gave her her first drink, you know, playing Scrabble at her house, like here, just have a little bit of this. But her grandmother was also the only person that really accepted her and was unconditionally loving. And it is sort of a COVID book because...
Like, especially if you're writing fiction now, you kind of, even if it's not on the page, you have to understand that each and every one of your characters, if it's contemporary, went through the pandemic. And they probably lost people. Or if they were kids, they had to stay home and do remote learning. And that's like a whole other thing. And that affected like their social development.
It really affected like a lot of kids' anxiety levels. And like Bella is struggling through that because they worked really hard to keep her grandmother safe through that whole thing. And then suddenly her grandmother like goes to the curb to get a newspaper and drops that. Like, what was that all for? Do you know what I mean? And so, but she's 15. She doesn't know how to articulate this.
And it is very much a book about, um,
severe anxiety and self-medication because we don't really talk enough about why kids might be drinking or doing drugs in the first place and I think for some of them a lot of it has to do with anxiety and depression because you feel better that's the thing we don't talk about you're like don't do drugs and it's also like but sometimes they make you feel better and And they chill you out.
And maybe that's something that could be helped with like a medication that's prescribed and some therapy. But, you know, sometimes you don't have access to those things, especially as kids. But you have access to alcohol.
with alcohol she's like i only realize that now but it's a little too late and i was like oh that's really interesting that you even made that connection i think in particular like girls and women do because it's acceptable yeah i like for me i stopped self-harming like physically but i i moved to alcohol like hardcore in my late teens and twenties and thirties. Right. Because that's acceptable.
It's another form. It's another form of self-harm. You're just switching to one that people are like, Oh, she just likes to party. Right. Not she likes to cut herself. She just likes to party. Right. But Oh my gosh, if you like cut yourself or burn yourself, that's, Oh, that's, you know, but like when you drink to excess like that, that's another form of self-harm.
I knew that I was I was doing that to like to feel better, to cope with my anxiety.
especially like as a teenager and also i was trying to escape just i didn't want to think about the things that were causing me to feel the way that i felt in the world because of the way that you know i was raised in the way that i grew up and i had and i still struggle with like all of those things i like to say that i'm just like living life um completely raw now like i have no I have no skin.
I don't have a protective covering of like alcohol or drugs anymore. And I just have to go like all my characters into the world, like an open wound and hope for the best. And I feel proud of myself for taking that on and like, making it. So The Glass Girl is about that. But it is also about divorce.
Because I haven't read a lot of YA books where maybe the parents are divorced, but they get along just fine, right? It's like a TV show. Everything's cool. They're co-parenting. What if they aren't? And also, your kids, it is really hard for them to go back and forth from one house to another. It's like going to stay at a different hotel every week.
You have to pack your bag, and I hope that you remembered your charger. And I hope you remember your favorite pair of pants because those are the ones that make you feel better when you're at school because you have the right kind of pants.
And I wanted to talk about what is that like when your parents don't get along and you're in the middle and they use you like they text you to tell your mother something. You know, that's like that shouldn't happen. And they need to get their shit together.
Yeah. And sometimes the rules are different at each house. That's just the way it is. A lot of times the parents are not on the same page. And so you go to one house and it's like, okay, you have to do your homework. And then you can look at your phone and then you have to go to bed. And at the other house, it's like... That's not the case at all.
And I think in terms of rehab and recovery, when you get out of rehab, everything is not perfect. There's no fixing it. It's a disease and you have to manage it every day. But oftentimes, like Bella, you go back to a family where maybe one person is supportive and the other one isn't.
Like Bella's dad, she's supposed to go stay with him, but he never thought that she needed to be in rehab in the first place. So he's still drinking beer when it's time for her to go stay with him for a week. And there will be people like that in your family who are like, well, that's your problem. and not mine. Right.
And, and yeah, and Bella has to figure that out and be brave enough to say, I can't stay with you when you're drinking.
collaborate with you we'll do that we'll finish that book for you i'll come in i'll be your ghost writer perfect and then you me and liz we can write like this whole mystery together oh i'm down i'm you don't even have to ask me twice sign me up like our kids can play in the other room while we're sitting around a dining room table like hashing out a mystery oh i would love that that would be so fun it'd be perfect
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