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After 19-year-old Alice Carrière tried to kill herself in three different ways in one night, a therapist asked her why she hacked at her limbs with knives. “I think,” she replied, “it’s because my parents believe we’re an exception to the rules. I can’t distinguish my thoughts about myself from my parents’ thoughts about me. I feel my arms and legs don’t belong to me.”
Alice Carrière’s memoir Everything/Nothing/Someone is an impressive feat of writing, and a dark insight into life among the overprivileged
In her book, the daughter of artist Jennifer Bartlett and renowned German actor Mathieu Carrière reveals all the ways she saved herself.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Astute — often shocking, sometimes hilarious — observations abound in the new memoir