{"product_id":"books-no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-by-sarah-labrie","title":"No One Gets to Fall Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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\u003eDigging 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 \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 \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 \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 \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 \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 \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672473231633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780063280724.jpg?v=1781519853","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-by-sarah-labrie","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}