'Alice Isn't Dead' by Joseph Fink is a novel adaptation of the podcast of the same name, telling the story of Keisha, who embarks on a road trip to find her wife, Alice, presumed dead until she appears in the background of a TV news story. Along the way, Keisha encounters monsters, secrets, and violence, all while navigating a dark and menacing conspiracy. The writing style includes elements of surrealism, allegory, and heartfelt storytelling, exploring themes of love, anxiety, and the complexities of relationships in a world filled with cruelty and mystery.
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Content warnings include graphic violence, body horror, anxiety representation, and themes of loss and betrayal.
Has Romance?
The story revolves around the central relationship between Keisha and her wife Alice, grounding the horror elements with a compelling love story.
From The Publisher:
A New York Times Bestseller
From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.
"This isn't a story. It's a road trip."
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country.
Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. She eventually stumbles on an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation's highway system-uncovering a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
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Listened this as an audiobook and I can highly recommend it. Was intrigued from beginning to end and found it very exciting and intriguing. Never a dull moment even in it's slower parts. Don't think I've read anything else by Joseph Fink before but after this I'm highly interested to do so
one of those books you are so happy to come across at just the right time
this is a science fiction novel about an endless war between good and evil
but it's really a story of how evil becomes, and whether there is another place between good and evil where we can find peace
not everything is black and white in this novel; there are hidden figures moving in the background of the background, and if the endless war really is endless (as it appears to be), they might be the ones to lead us to a better place
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Alice Isn't Dead?
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