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A gorgeous and gripping story of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage, twelve years after a devastating tragedy upended their lives.
*Available now from Viking (US) and Penguin Michael Joseph (UK).*
Praise for The World After Alice:
“A literary romance that has a complex familial dynamic with an expansive feel… This one will make you laugh and moments later choke you up with its intricately woven narrative that is impressively executed."
— Glamour UK
“This dramatic tragi-comedy, full of delicious bourgeois life-style detail, takes us right into the head of each character.”
~The Daily Mail
“For three days, I was completely consumed by this book. It’s a story brimming with human insight, revealing truths about family, about love, and about moving forward after unimaginable loss. It’s a brilliant debut that’s deeply rooted in a quest to reveal the desires, quirks, and flaws that make us human.”
~Camille Styles’ “Best Books of 2024”
“...A poignant and thought-provoking examination of love, healing and long-held secrets, and of grief in all its many forms.”
~Culturefly's "Best New Books"
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“Green puts together sentences with an urgency reminiscent of Bellow and has devised an omniscient narrator that calls to mind Forster in its appealing mix of empathy and wry humor. I loved it and I admire it, and have been recommending it to everyone I know."
~Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
“A surprise wedding in Maine resurrects emotional wounds and reveals the messy dynamics among two families in this tender, affecting debut. . . . This character driven story will please readers who appreciate astute observations about human behavior and messy family dramas like Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead.”
~Booklist