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Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carrière

8 reviews

madisophi's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautifully written. A bit difficult at times, the subject matter starts out hard but it is more than worth seeing it out to the end. This is what a memoir should be

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Pedophilia and Death of parent

gensz's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug use

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely incredible memoir. I had never heard of Alice or either of her parents before but was recommended this book by a friend, who knows I love memoirs and hearing stories of people's lives. Getting to hear Alice share herself and her family was magnificent and heartbreaking. Her writing was insightful, funny, poetic, and real. Hearing her narrate it herself brought so much to it as well. Incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Addiction, Drug use, Blood, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Self harm, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Grief, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

dizzzybrook's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Self harm, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

Oh wow. I didn’t know what I was getting nails into with this one. Full of triggers!!!! So beware before opening the book. Hard for me to know who I’m angrier with on behalf of the author - her father or her psychiatrist. Every time I thought it couldn’t get worse, so it did. But I don’t think I’m giving away the ending by saying I’m glad she pulled herself together, because I don’t think she could’ve written this book otherwise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Dementia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Trafficking, and Drug abuse

literary_bug's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Confinement, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Incest, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Injury/Injury detail

theocbookgirl's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Addiction, Self harm, Drug abuse, Incest, Grief, and Toxic relationship

oldandnewbooksmell's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Trigger Warnings: sexual abuse, false memory, inherited trauma, mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction

In this memoir of Alice Carrière, she tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett and European actor Mathieu Carrière. Growing up in the bohemian 90’s, Alice must navigate her mother’s recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse that she turns into art, and her father’s odd and confusing attentions. For the most part, Alice is left alone with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision.

When she enters adolescence, Alice begins to lose herself as a dissociative disorder begins to take over. She bounces in and out of mental hospitals and takes up various roles around town while bouncing from one experience to another in a medicated state. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her Alzheimer’-afflicted mother. With the help of a recovering addict who loves her, Alice also finds the courage to confront her father, whose words and actions splintered her. 

I haven’t read a lot of written memoirs (I’ve read a few graphic novel memoirs/biographies). But, this year I’m trying to make sure I branch out and read a different variety of genres. This one caught my eye because of the mental health aspect and growing up in the 90’s. Mental health and the stigma around it has drastically changed within the last few years. I grew up in the 90’s/00’s and I remember you didn’t talk about mental health - now I make jokes with my coworkers about our crippling depression/anxiety almost daily.

This memoir won’t be for everybody. Everything/Nothing/Someone deals with a lot of heavy subjects, but it is very thought-provoking and a look at how mental health was tackled and the stigma with it in the 90’s, early 2000’s. 
 

*Thank you Spiegel & Grau, Publishers Weekly, and NetGalley for a digital advance copy of this memoir in exchange for an honest review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Dementia