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Alice Carrière's memoir tackles the dissonance between memory and mental health

Alice Carrière's memoir tackles the dissonance between memory and mental health

FromNPR's Book of the Day


Alice Carrière's memoir tackles the dissonance between memory and mental health

FromNPR's Book of the Day

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Alice Carrière grew up in Manhattan under the care – and absence – of two extraordinarily creative parents: artist Jennifer Bartlett and actor Mathieu Carrière. But her mother's trauma, her father's transgressions, and her own dissociative disorder broke Alice's ties to her own identity and humanity. In her memoir, Everything/Nothing/Someone, she recounts some of the most difficult moments of her life – but as she tells NPR's Ailsa Chang, she also used writing, her mother's dementia and a reconciliation with her father to reclaim her own reality.
Released:
Sep 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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