{"product_id":"no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-isbn-9780063280724","title":"No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Best Book of the Year — NPR, Esquire, Elle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for Reading the West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “A triumph.” — Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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 in their complex mother-daughter relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of generational trauma and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning 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 Black woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntellectually fierce and emotionally raw, this is a story of inheritance, identity, and the memories we must confront to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Complicated Mother-Daughter Bond:\u003c\/b\u003e Navigating a relationship defined by both \"all-consuming closeness\" and violence in the shadow of a devastating schizophrenia diagnosis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSearching for an Origin:\u003c\/b\u003e Tracing a family history of mental illness from a great-grandmother, the granddaughter of slaves, through the author’s own depression as a scholarship student at Brown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Black Woman’s Coming of Age:\u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching journey from Houston’s Third Ward to the Ivy League and beyond, grappling with race, class, and the struggle to write her own future.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFor Readers of Educated and The Glass Castle:\u003c\/b\u003e A stunning literary memoir that blends intellectual rigor with raw, personal narrative to explore the ties that bind and the moments that break us.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Across this haunting, harrowing and at times rollicking account, [Sarah LaBrie] is forced in turn to frame a part, a role, a life amidst chaos. And she does so with a grace and a thoughtfulness worthy of her hero Walter Benjamin.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I had a compulsive relationship with \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e. Once I opened this brilliant memoir, I \u003cem\u003eneeded \u003c\/em\u003eto finish it. When I wasn't reading, I was thinking about Sarah LaBrie's story, turning over in my mind her most devastating observations about motherhood, madness, and creativity. This book is stunning, one of the best memoirs I've read in a decade. \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e deserves a place alongside modern classics like Jeannette Walls' \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e and Tara Westover's \u003cem\u003eEducated\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“LaBrie's spellbinding prose is a metaphysical experience: cinematic, poetic, philosophical, and wholly stunning. If psychiatric disability has impacted your life, or if you've ever been lonely, or if you enjoy having exceptional writing light up your brain, this book is an essential gift. It's that rare gem that somehow holds dazzling intertextual craft and prodigiously tender honesty in equal turn, to sublime effect. This memoir will never leave me.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a brilliant memoir about what we inherit and what we create; what disappears and what remains. Full of intelligence and rueful humor, \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumph of every kind of literary perseverance.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] unforgettable memoir… Deeply intelligent and unashamedly real.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"No One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e is a sensitive and courageous debut by a talented writer seeking a deeper understanding of herself and her past.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicole Chung, for Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extraordinary. . . . LaBrie brings a piercing astuteness and sensitive voice to the dilemma raised by the writer’s desire to tell a story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will be treated to a meandering and wise discussion of the past’s coloring of our futures, and how to carve the best path forward even through pain and rupture.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"Editor's Pick\" and \"Notable Book of the Year\" * An \u003cem\u003eEssence\u003c\/em\u003e \"Most Anticipated\" * A Lit Hub's \"Most Anticipated\" * An Oprah Daily \"Best Book of Fall\" * An \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e \"Best Memoir of the Year\" * A \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \"N\u003c\/em\u003eew Book for a Season of Change\" * A Zibby Owens \"Most Anticipated\" * An NPR \"Books We Love\" *\u003c\/strong\u003e —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] spellbinding debut.... With unflinching honesty (‘I am so terribly sick of cannibalizing my life for art’) and lyrical prose, LaBrie elegantly captures the grunt work of self-acceptance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable meditation on . . . the blurry line between madness and artistic brilliance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"LaBrie’s intimate and vivid chronicle is haunting in its sorrow and beautiful in its daring and hope.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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...A bracing look at a writer’s troubled past.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This memoir was an eye-opening account of mental illness and family dynamics. LaBrie allows readers into deeply personal moments while shedding light on more widespread themes that stem from her family’s past as well as LaBrie’s own creative drive.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebutiful, \"10 noteworthy debut books\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With remarkable insight and frankness, TV writer and librettist Sarah LaBrie mines her family history of mental illness in her ambitious debut memoir… \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e examines family dynamics, mental health, Blackness, literature, friendship, the #MeToo movement and more as LaBrie illustrates her desire to embrace her own emotions, even as the temptation to suppress them looms.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Introspective and vulnerable. . . . 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Urgent and imaginative. . . . \u003cem\u003eNo One Gets to Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e makes for an engrossing read, its hectic scenes held together by a psychically unmoored narrator whose wit and honesty make us trust her anyway.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890699399397,"sku":"NP9780063280724","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063280724.jpg?v=1730233877","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-isbn-9780063280724","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}