{"product_id":"9781954118553","title":"Everything\/Nothing\/Someone: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice * Indie Next Pick * \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction 2023 * \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction 2023 * Amazon Best of the Month * B\u0026amp;N Most Anticipated * Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “remarkable” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Carrière 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, Carrière has written a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, at last, cure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007744917744,"sku":"9781954118553","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781954118553_p0.jpg?v=1764127524","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781954118553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}