- Published: 26 August 2025
- ISBN: 9781464245145
- Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $26.00
Doll Parts











- Published: 26 August 2025
- ISBN: 9781464245145
- Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $26.00
Sad Girl Cult but make it crime fiction: the genre-blending Doll Parts is as dark and evocative as tear-smudged eyeliner, as rebellious and moody as a song by Hole. Part mystery, part bildungsroman, and part paean to female friendship, Zang’s debut examines our cultural obsession with beautiful dead women--and, against a world that might prefer them silent, cold, and pretty, the lengths to which two best friends will go to remain vital, messy, and true to themselves, their bravery reverberating across timelines.
Ashley Winstead, USA Today-bestselling author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour
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.
Samantha Downing, Internationally Bestselling Author of My Lovely Wife and Too Old For This
Doll Parts is a dark, atmospheric exploration of friendship, exploitation, and female rage. Delving into the most vulnerable and turbulent stages of womanhood, it’s perfect for fans of Megan Abbott and Ashley Audrain.
Robyn Harding, International Bestselling author of The Drowning Woman
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.
Megan Collins, author of Cross My Heart
Doll Parts is one of the most unexpectedly imaginative, and soulful, suspense novels I’ve read in some time. Following dual mysteries, that of Sadie as she navigates motherhood and life in her late husband’s first wife’s shadow, and Nikki, years earlier, chasing a shadow of her own, Penny Zang creates a unique world infused with deep friendship, grief, and the quiet resilience of becoming. Doll Parts miraculously succeeds on both a level of suspense and lyricism, which, if done well, of course, is the very definition of great poetry.
Lee Kravetz, author of The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.