{"product_id":"no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-9780063280724","title":"No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReading the West \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"Editor's Pick\" and \"Notable Book of the Year\" * An \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e \"Most Anticipated\" * A Lit Hub's \"Most Anticipated\" * An Oprah Daily \"Best Book of Fall\" * An \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e \"Best Memoir of the Year\" * A \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \"N\u003c\/em\u003eew Book for a Season of Change\" * A Zibby Owens \"Most Anticipated\" * An NPR \"Books We Love\" *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliant . . . stunning . . . deserves a place alongside modern classics like Jeannette Walls's \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e and Tara Westover's \u003cem\u003eEducated.\u003c\/em\u003e\" --Susannah Cahalan, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBrain on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A triumph.\"--Lorrie Moore, author of \u003cem\u003eI Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMemorial Drive\u003c\/em\u003e, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie's mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigging into the events that led to her mother's break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can't finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the globe from Houston's Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart \u003c\/em\u003eis an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabrie, Sarah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSarah LaBrie is an author and TV writer based in Los Angeles. Her work appears in \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJoyland\u003c\/em\u003e, t\u003cem\u003ehe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications. Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Apollo Theater, and she has written on television series including \u003cem\u003eMinx\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlindspotting\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLove, Victor.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, Sewanee, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was nominated for Best Television Comedy Script at the 2024 Women's Image Network Awards for her work on \u003cem\u003eBlindspotting\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe earned her BA from Brown University in Comparative Literature and Literary Arts and an MFA from New York University as a Writers in the Schools Fellow. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874640269586,"sku":"9780063280724","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_22a7e299-c1a0-4b69-9ed3-942051ea3574.jpg?v=1761040188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-9780063280724","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}