Everything, Nothing, Someone- A Memoir by Alice Carriere

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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 Compared to Girl, Interrupted, this 'remarkable' New York Times memoir and love story, one of the most notable literary debuts of 2023, tells of a young woman's harrowing coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and her journey, against the odds, to find herself. Alice Carriere tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist 8239, Jennifer Bartlett, 8239, and a charismatic father, European actor 8239, Mathieu Carriere. 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 days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision. When 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.
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    • Suggested age range - Adult
    • Format - Hardcover
    • Dimensions - 9.2" W x 6.1" H x 1.1" D
    • Genre - Biography
    • Publisher - Spiegel Grau, Publication date - 08-29-2023
    • Page count - 288
    • ISBN - 9781954118294
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*TUDOR^QUEEN*
2 years ago
from New Jersey

Wild ride of psychological struggles

Four Stars This was a very interesting memoir from a young woman named Alice Carriere who was born to successful artistic parents. Her mother was artist Jennifer Bartlett and the father was German actor Mathieu Carriere. Post divorce, Alice lived with her mother in NYC in what sounded like an amazing property featuring an upstairs bedroom with a pool and floor to ceiling windows leading out to a garden. However, her mother was distant and self-absorbed with her artwork. Alice's nanny seemed more of a mother to her, and there didn't seem to be any structure or responsibilities grounding her life. There also was a simmering sexual innuendo with the father when they would have visitations. The book is a wild ride of Alice's psychological struggles including bouts of cutting, panic attacks, paranoia, and much more. Like her mother, Alice loved to listen to audiobooks growing up, and was fastidious about keeping journals. She clearly is a gifted writer and this was a seeringly honest and compelling read. Thank you to the publisher Spiegel & Grau who provided an advance reader copy via NetGalley.

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amybannerman
2 years ago
from Austin

Mental / Emotional Illness

Fascininating! Alice Carriere tells her story of growing with famous parents, both of whom suffered from emotional issues. Alice describes her own mental illness as a teenager and young adult, and her struggles with dissociation, medications, and psychiatrists. I appreciate her candor and her ability to get her incredibly complex feelings on the written page. This book is difficult to read in that Alice's relationship with her father was horribly inappropriate and disturbing. I wish her all the best as she moves forward and continues her recovery. Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this memoir.

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B&NCarlyR
2 years ago
from B&N Home Office

Favorite Read of the Year So Far

This memoir definitely has the feeling of “Girl, Interrupted” mixed with “Just Kids”. The writing is incredible with a brutal dreamlike (or nightmarish) quality. I found myself slowing down just to inhale the sharp reflections of the author and hold on to them, not wanting the book to end. I hope this one gets all the attention it deserves.

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