The World After Alice

Praise

Advance Praise for The World After Alice

“The World After Alice is 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 Hello Beautiful

“The World After Alice is a study of grief, resilience, and surprising joy in the face of incomprehensible loss. I know these characters will stay with me.”
—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes and The Half Moon

“A page-turner of a family drama. The World After Alice is at turns brutally honest, funny, and deeply empathic.”
—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake

“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

“Lauren Aliza Green’s The World After Alice is 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

“In The World After Alice, Lauren Aliza Green lays bare the mysteries of grief, growth, and love in the wake of unthinkable loss. 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, author of Remember Me Like This

“In this truly elegant novel, two families come together to celebrate a wedding. But through Lauren Aliza Green’s precise, amusing, and beautiful writing, we get to explore the mysterious ways that joy and grief tangle together. Each character is tenderly drawn yet frighteningly real. I read this book, and the complicated relationships within, turning the pages as fast as I could, aching to understand the impossible.”
—Hanna Halperin, author of I Could Live Here Forever

“A Maine wedding reunites two families—and resurrects buried griefs and secrets along the way. With a remarkable cast of characters Lauren Aliza Green creates a panoramic, suspenseful, and ultimately very moving exploration of loss and recovery. The World After Alice is a beautiful and accomplished debut.”
—Laura Van Den Berg, author of The Third Hotel