The World After Alice

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The poignant and critically acclaimed novel of two estranged families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, for fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo When Morgan and Benji send out their wedding invitations, they know it will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the loss of sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji's sister and Morgan's best friend, and nothing is quite the same. But as the young couple brings their two families together, they hope that old wounds can be mended. However, as the guests descend upon the tranquil coastal town for the nuptials, with new lovers and deep-seated agendas in tow, it soon becomes clear that not everyone is ready to move on. Can the wedding's fragile peace survive the sunny weekend Or will the two families learn that the darkest secrets always come to light in the end

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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, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
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, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
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 The Hero of This Book
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 Biography of X

Author Bio

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.