"I wrote this very simply to stay alive." 

Alice Carrière's 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. Carrière 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. 

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.  

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 Featured Books (Episode): 

Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière 

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 

The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 

The Giver by Lois Lowry 

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 

Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler