Alice Bliss

By Laura Harrington

Book Overview

A Boston Globe bestseller

"Nothing less than a fully realized vision of a young complicated girl." --Entertainment Weekly

Tomboy Alice Bliss is heartbroken when she learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq. Matt will miss seeing Alice blossom into a full-blown teenager: she'll learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love--all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and her precocious little sister. But the phone calls from her father are never long enough. At once universal and very personal, Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving story about those who are left at home during wartime and a small-town teenage girl bravely facing the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143121111
• ISBN13: 9780143121114
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Alice Bliss is one of the most moving novels I’ve ever read.

This book draws you so deep into the characters that you feel as if you’re swimming back up to the surface of a deep pool every time you have to put it down. This book has jumped to my list of top ten favorites.