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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Audiobook
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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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About Sarah LaBrie
Sarah LaBrie was born in Oakland and grew up in Third Ward in Houston, Texas. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has written for several television shows. Her fiction and essays appear in Guernica, the Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She graduated from Brown University and holds an MFA from New York University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two rescue dogs.