A Poignant Debut Novel from Lauren Aliza Green - Longlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
For fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo, this deeply moving, sharply written family drama explores grief, secrets, and resilience with wit and heart
'Glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight' Ann Napolitano
'A page turner . . . honest, funny and deeply empathic' Charmaine Wilkerson
'Deeply moving' Heat
'This dramatic tragi-comedy takes us right into the head of each character' Daily Mail
'Poignant and thought-provoking' Culturefly
'Will make you laugh and moments later choke you up . . . impressively executed' Glamour
'Such a fascinating portrayal of secrets, deceit, the complicated nature of family relationships and societal expectations. I will be recommending this book to everybody I know!' 5* Reader Review
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Morgan and Benji are getting married.
Which comes as a shock to their families . . .
Twelve years ago, sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji's sister and Morgan's best friend, died. No one is quite the same. As Benji and Morgan bring the two families together for the first time since the funeral, they know old wounds have yet to heal.
But as the guests descend on a tranquil New England town, it's clear that these estranged families won't come quietly.
Add in old flames, unexpected new loves, and the sharp secrets some still carry about Alice, and Morgan and Benji wonder not will the marriage last, but will they survive the wedding?
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'A bouquet of a book: thoughtful, heartfelt, funny, tender, tough and gorgeously written. A tremendous new writer' Elizabeth McCracken
'A study of grief, resilience and surprising joy. I know these characters will stay with me' Mary Beth Keane
'Intricately structured and elegantly written . . . a family drama that pivots between the sweeping and the intimate in seamless, wildly entertaining prose' Catherine Lacey
'Green writes with a poet's ear and an impressionist's eye, and the result is a wise, elegiac novel that is impossible to put down even after turning the last gorgeous page' Bret Anthony Johnston
'Truly elegant . . . I turned the pages as fast as I could, aching to understand the impossible' Hanna Halperin
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A lovely debut novel that glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight. There's a quiet beauty to Lauren Aliza Green's work, and I am now a fan -- Ann Napolitano, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Dear Edward</i> Deeply moving . . . reflects on the different ways grief affects people, the complex nature of families, and how lies and deceit and tear fragile relationships apart * Heat * A 'sizzling summer read' * Grazia * A 'Literary Summer Romance' Pick * Vogue * This dramatic tragi-comedy, full of delicious bourgeois lifestyle detail takes us right into the head of each character * Daily Mail * A page-turner of a family drama . . . at turns brutally honest, funny, and deeply empathic -- Charmaine Wilkerson, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Black Cake</i> A bouquet of a book: thoughtful, heartfelt, funny, tender, tough, and gorgeously written. It is a novel about how love won't save you, except in the ways that it does, about the pain of family life, and also its transcendent qualities. Green is a tremendous new writer -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of <i>The Hero of This Book</i> A captivating romance * Woman's Weekly * Gripping . . . a pool side page-turner * Sainsbury's Magazine * Intricately structured and elegantly written, The World After Alice is a family drama that pivots between the sweeping and the intimate in seamless, wildly entertaining prose -- Catherine Lacey, author of <i>Biography of X</i>
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 196 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4059-6400-5 (9781405964005)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lauren Aliza Green holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and was one of Forbes' '30 under 30' in the 2024 media category. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train (winner of the New Writer's Award), and elsewhere. She is the author of A Great Dark House, which won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship, and the inaugural recipient of the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award, sponsored by Poetry Ireland and Stanford University. Her writing has received support from the Kenyon Review Workshop, Bread Loaf, and the Carson McCullers Center. Lauren lives in New York City.
