EPISODE · Oct 22, 2024 · 5 MIN
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir by Sarah Labrie
from Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Lenny Little
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Lit Hub's ''Most Anticipated'' * An Oprah Daily ''Best Book of Fall'' * An Esquire ''Best Memoir of the Year'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book for a Season of Change'' * A Zibby Owens ''Most Anticipated'' In this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal. Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Lit Hub's ''Most Anticipated'' * An Oprah Daily ''Best Book of Fall'' * An Esquire ''Best Memoir of the Year'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book for a Season of Change'' * A Zibby Owens ''Most Anticipated'' In this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal. Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.
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