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U.K RELEASE: JULY 31, 2025
U.S RELEASE: AUGUST 26, 2025
"Zang’s compelling debut delves insightfully into topics such as friendship, grief, and Plath’s place in literature as well as exploring the dangers of romanticizing suicide...Book group clubbers will come for the thoughtful exploration of serious themes, while fans in search of character-rich, academia-set suspense tales will enjoy the twisty plot."
— Samantha Downing, Internationally Bestselling Author of My Lovely Wife and Too Old For This
"Doll Parts is the most mesmerizing and original book I’ve read in a long time. It’s eerie and addictive, a story that pulls you in and won’t let go. Penny Zang has a gift, and I would read anything she writes."
Megan Collins, author of Cross My Heart
"Haunted and haunting, Doll Parts is an exquisite exploration and scathing critique of our cultural obsession with pretty dead girls, as well as a riveting mystery pieced together by two fascinating and complex protagonists. Like a beloved collection of poetry, this story is worth carrying around, dog-earing, highlighting, returning to again and again. I loved this book from its very first sentence."
Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House
"Twisty, bold, and pulsing with the fever dream of 90s girlhood, Doll Parts is a genre all its own: part mystery, part dirge, part love letter to Baltimore, a postpartum story and a celebration of fierce female friendship. Penny Zang has written a glorious indictment of our cultural obsession with dead girls, so well-written and so fun that you don't see its true depths until you've gleefully dived in. "
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