Everything/Nothing/Someone by Carriere, Alice

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Author: Carriere, AliceAutobiography: arts & entertainmentPublished on 29 February 2024 by ATLANTIC BOOKS in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 288 pages135 x 215 x 34 | 328g
*GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY* *A JENNETTE MCCURDY BOOKCLUB PICK*The story is extraordinary, but more importantly, the storytelling is exceptional If you read one memoir this year, make it this one. PANDORA SYKESAn impressive feat of writing. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Written elegantly with humor and compassion Alice manages to tell her story with insight and forgiveness for her parents and herself, and we root for them all, all the way. SUSAN SARANDONI spent a feverish few days devouring it with a mixture of anguish and awe. SOPHIE WHITE, IRISH INDEPENDENTMind-blowing LENA DUNHAMThis exceptional memoir and love story tells of a young womans harrowing coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and her journey, against the odds, to find herself.Alice Carrire tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrire. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger-a child living in an adults world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision.Alice begins to lose her grasp on reality as a dissociative disorder erases her identity and overzealous doctors medicate her further away from herself. She inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, a denizen of the downtown New York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men-ricocheting from experience to experience until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down.With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Everything/Nothing/Someone explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.Spellbinding JENNETTE MCCURDYIts extraordinary make your way to this book. SARAH JESSICA PARKERRemarkable NEW YORK TIMES