
Everything Nothing Someone
A Memoir
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Alice Carrière
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Alice Carrière
Compared to Girl, Interrupted, this “remarkable” (New York Times) memoir and love story, one of 2023’s most notable literary debuts, tells of a young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age journey, amid glamour, excess, and neglect, to find herself.
Alice Carrière 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 Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother’s recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father’s confusing attentions—her childhood is spent in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision.
As she enters adolescence, 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—until a medication-induced psychosis brings her world crashing down. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother as she descends into dementia, in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her, in confronting her father whose words and actions splintered her, and in finding her voice as a writer.
With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Everything/Nothing/Someone explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly and on our own terms. In precise, energetic prose, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.
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Critic reviews
* New York Times Editor’s Choice
* Indie Next Pick
* Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2023
* Kirkus Best Nonfiction 2023
* Amazon Best of the Month
* B&N Most Anticipated
* Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick
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Absolutely incredible
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Luckily, I stuck through her story of her healing and found a complete recount of extreme lows, followed by some extreme highs, fulfilling a full circle resolution.
Thank you for sharing, Alice!
You have to stay till the end
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Powerful and relatable
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Amazing Journey
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Beautiful and brutal
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It tells the tale of a young woman struggling to find herself from the pieces of her own memory in order for her to live a life of meaning. She struggles with even knowing the truth of her of own history, And in it's unraveling emerges the truest meaning of love and family, support and bonds.
The narration was spot on, hearing the inflection the author gives also hints at her own feelings as you move through each phase of her life.
You will find meaning within these words. And it will be a journey worth taking.
Thank you to the author for putting herself into the vulnerable position of sharing her deepest pain with us, the readers.
Most important book I've ever read
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Really engaging
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Feels too real - with the greatest of compliments
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The story and the telling of it are remarkable
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I’m glad she wrote about it. It is healing.
From the Heart
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