Barnes & NobleEverything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carriere

New York Times Editor's Choice Indie Next Pick Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2023 Kirkus Best Nonfiction 2023 Amazon Best of the Month Most Anticipated Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick A remarkable New York Times Book Review 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. Alice 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. Alice 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