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* New York Times Editor’s Choice * Indie Next Pick * B&N Most Anticipated * Amazon Best of the Month * Kirkus 20 Most Anticipated Books of Fall * GMA End of Summer Reading Pick * PW Top 10 Memoir of Fall *

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1 author picked Everything/Nothing/Someone as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was attracted to this memoir because it examines an issue I explore in my own memoir, childhood mental illness.

For a memoir to work readers need to be able to trust the author, in Everything/Nothing/Someone that trust is earned early on by Alice’s brutal honesty. The reader may not always like or understand Alice, but they will believe her, which says a lot because some of the things recounted here are so awful as to be almost unbelievable. Alice tackles her troubles not with self-pity but with an eye at understanding.

Her memoir is an exploration of creativity, madness,…

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