"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