\u201cI wrote this very simply to stay alive.\u201d\xa0
Alice Carri\xe8re\u2019s beautiful and intense memoir of her unconventional childhood, her mental health journey through the failings of the psychiatric system and more that eventually led her to a life of reconciliation and reconstruction. Carri\xe8re joins us to talk about why she wrote the book now, the connectivity of writing and reading, her love of audiobooks and more with guest host Jenna Seery.\xa0
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\xa0
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\xa0Featured Books (Episode):\xa0
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carri\xe8re\xa0
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath\xa0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest by Ken Kesey\xa0
The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis\xa0
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor\xa0
The Giver by Lois Lowry\xa0
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre\xa0
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector\xa0
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler\xa0