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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Audiobook
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A New York Times ""Editor's Pick"" and ""Notable Book of the Year"" * An Essence ""Most Anticipated"" * 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"" * An NPR ""Books We Love"" *
“Brilliant . . . stunning . . . deserves a place alongside modern classics like Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Tara Westover’s Educated.” —Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire
“A triumph.”—Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
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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“Sarah LaBrie, a successful television writer based in Los Angeles, narrates her gripping memoir of family trauma in a calm, sweet voice that keeps listeners engaged…The result is a harrowing and engrossing listen. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“The willingness to nakedly share this healing and her struggles are exactly what make the book so alluring, and [LaBrie’s] utter honesty is the strongest part of her work.”
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“A memoir that faces failure head-on….[LaBrie] does a remarkable job presenting the ways in which our health care system has failed the women in her family.”
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“LaBrie illustrates her desire to embrace her own emotions, even as the temptation to suppress them looms.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year Pick
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2024
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An Oprah Magazine Pick for Fall
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An NPR Pick of Books We Love
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About Sarah LaBrie
Sarah LaBrie is a writer whose fiction has appeared in Guernica, the Literary Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles, where she has written for television shows. Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. She has held residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She holds an MFA degree from New York University, where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.