Everything/Nothing/Someone

Alice Carrière's memoir, Everything/Nothing/Someone, is a powerful and captivating story of a young woman's coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect. It explores the themes of identity, mental health, and the search for belonging. The storytelling is exceptional, and the book has received widespread praise from critics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books

GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY


A JENNETTE MCCURDY BOOKCLUB PICK


The story is extraordinary, but more importantly, the storytelling is exceptional. If you read one memoir this year, make it this one. - PANDORA SYKES


An impressive feat of writing. - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH


Written elegantly with humor and compassion, Alice manages to tell her story with insight and forgiveness for her parents and herself, and we root for them all, all the way. - SUSAN SARANDON


Mind-blowing - LENA DUNHAM


This exceptional memoir and love story 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 Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. 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.


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 York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men—ricocheting from experience to experience until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down.


With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Everything/Nothing/Someone explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories that have shaped her into the woman she is today.


This is a powerful and unforgettable memoir that will leave you thinking about the complexities of identity, family, and the search for self-discovery.

Weight: 325g
Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805462439
Edition number: Main