No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir

"In 2017, when Sarah LaBrie was in her early 30s and living in Los Angeles, her mother – a nurse in Houston – was found on the side of a highway, paralyzed with paranoia that she was being targeted by assailants in white sedans. Through the lens of her mother’s schizophrenia diagnosis, LaBrie, who is Black, examines her intense and unstable upbringing, her family’s history of mental illness and her own artistic ambitions. As these threads intersect, No One Gets to Fall Apart forms a remarkable meditation on inheritance, race and mental illness, the mother-daughter relationship and the blurry line between madness and artistic brilliance."