title: Broken Pieces: A Memoir of Abuse
author:  Rachel Thompson 
description: Rachel Thompson is the author of Broken Places (one of IndieReader's "Best of 2015" top books and 2015 Honorable Mention Winner in the San Francisco Book Festival and Los Angeles Book Festival), and the multi award-winning and bestselling Broken Pieces, as well as two additional humor books, A Walk In The Snark and Mancode: Exposed. Rachel is represented by Lisa Hagan Literary Agency. Her books will be published by boutique literary publisher ShadowTeamsNYC as of May, 2016. Broken Places continues her exploration started in Broken Pieces, through honest, raw yet lyrical poetry, essays, and prose, one women's journey from trauma to healing. She owns BadRedhead Media, creating effective social media and book marketing campaigns for authors. Her articles appear regularly in The Huffington Post, IndieReader.com, FeminineCollective.com, and BookPromotion.com. Not just an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, Rachel is the creator and founder of the blog-sharing hashtag phenomenon #MondayBlogs and the live Twitter chat, #SexAbuseChat, co-hosted with certified therapist/survivor, Bobbi Parish (Tuesdays, 6pm pst), and #BookMarketingChat (every Wednesday 6pm pst). She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut. She lives in California with her family.
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  Copyright © 2015 Amanda Humphries
  
  
  Cover design © by Amanda Humphries
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
  any electronic or mechanical means—except in the case of brief quotations
  embodied in articles or reviews—without written permission from the author.
  All rights reserved
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1518707582
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1518707580
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For you, Bonnie.
  
  
  You were the only one there to listen, after all. Thank you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  e were against the lockers upstairs, and it wasn’t looking pretty. Jessica was
  taking this way too personally, despite my attempts to make this already
  tender situation less painful. Then again, I guess it only made sense.
  Breaking up is always a hard thing—for some. The name’s Alexan