{"product_id":"everything-nothing-someone-a-memoir","title":"Everything\/Nothing\/Someone: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editor's Choice * Indie Next Pick * \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Best Nonfiction 2023 * \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e Best Nonfiction 2023 * Amazon Best of the Month * B\u0026amp;N Most Anticipated * Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"remarkable\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) memoir that tells of a young woman's coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and the love affair that, against the odds, allows her to save herself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Carri?re grew up in a converted factory in Greenwich Village in the 1990s, an extravagant home based on the hyper-aestheticized vision of her artist mother, Jennifer Bartlett--with two studios, an indoor swimming pool, a rooftop garden with a koi pond, and multiple, cavernous rooms through which a steady stream of visitors flowed. Alice's iconoclastic European father was a fleeting, atmospheric disturbance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice grows up as a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision. As she enters adolescence, a dissociative disorder erases her identity, and overzealous doctors medicate her further into madness. In the absence of self, she inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men, a provocateur who weaponizes intellectual dazzle and outrageous candor--until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Finally, a soulful connection with a generous and sensitive musician allows her to free herself from the pathologies that defined her and recognize her true self. With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Carri?re has written a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, at last, cure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Carrière\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Amagansett, New York. \u003ci\u003eEverything\/Nothing\/Someone\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641896014098,"sku":"9781954118553","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_860efd4b-fb13-47be-ae47-62d7c9823214.jpg?v=1733045217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-nothing-someone-a-memoir","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}