With Everything Alice there will never be a dull moment in your own personal wonderland.

Includes a reading group guide for the Alice series.

"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--

Alice Treemont has no intention of falling in love. Living in Blake’s Folly, a semi-ghost town, she cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests? Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing research for his new book, but he won’t be staying. He’s disgusted by desert dust on his fine Italian shoes and dog hair on his cashmere sweaters. As for snakes, he doesn’t just despise them: they terrify him. So why does the air sizzle each time Alice and Jace meet? A romance would entail far too many compromises.

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Claire Woods had the friends, the looks, and the status. She was at the top of the social ladder at Summit View High School. At Summit View, everyone respected the laws of High School Hierarchy. Claire and her entourage dominated the game for as long as anyone could remember. Claire truly had it all, or so she thought. Suddenly the tides shifted, changing Claire from top girl to public enemy number one. Her fall from grace stripped her of her friends, her status, and her identity. But then Alice Monroe moved into town. Alice was everything but socially acceptable at Summit View. She was eccentric, tough, and witty. Her style is something between scene and emo; all of which is the exact opposite of Claire. But through a peculiar sequence of events the two become very close. And Alice gives Claire a solution to all of her social problems: kill the competition. Anyone who crossed Claire or simply got in her way became fair game for the murderous duo. But as the bodies pile up Claire loses herself in all the carnage. As her conscious slowly returns she begins question Alices true motives. Is she simply trying to help a friend or is there something else Alice isnt telling her? When will the havoc become too much for Claire? With a rollercoaster ride of a story and with a twist that will leave you stunned . . . to say the least, Alice is a raw, gritty, and exciting tale of loyalty, death, morality, and the loss of innocence.