New York Times Editor's Choice Indie Next Pick Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2023 Kirkus Best Nonfiction 2023 Amazon Best of the Month B N Most Anticipated Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick Compared to Girl, Interrupted, this 'remarkable' New York Times memoir and love story, one of the most notable literary debuts of 2023, 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 Carriere tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist 8239, Jennifer Bartlett, 8239, and a charismatic father, European actor 8239, Mathieu Carriere. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. 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. When she enters adolescence, 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.