What Alice Forgot
From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty. Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she faints and falls to the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over - she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old.
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Still thinking about this book. Itâs so fascinating to think about what your life was 10 years ago. Would you still be in the same place you are? Would you have made different choices? I can not wait to read the next Liane Moriarty book.
I've read this probably 8 or 9 times and it still hasn't gotten old. This book is so profound and relatable
Enjoyable read. I appreciated the interaction between the "young Alice" and the "older Alice". It made me think about how we change over the years. I thought the parts written by her sister Elizabeth to her psychologist added a lot to the story line but not so much the parts by her adopted grandmother Frannie.
What struck me the most was the thoughtful views on marriage. "It was never so much that Dominick was wrong for her and that Nick was right. She may have had a perfectly happy life with Dominick. But Nick was Nickâ¦They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same placeâ¦" Marriage cannot be simply put asunder, because of the tangled threads ("How strange [divorce] was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?"). Time binds: "Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives." It's not a romantic view of marriage, but nor is it a cynical one, and it seems to me a very true one. There is actually something quite beautiful in it: "Early love is exciting and exhilaratingâ¦Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the bestâwell, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word."
What struck me the most was the thoughtful views on marriage. "It was never so much that Dominick was wrong for her and that Nick was right. She may have had a perfectly happy life with Dominick. But Nick was Nickâ¦They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same placeâ¦" Marriage cannot be simply put asunder, because of the tangled threads ("How strange [divorce] was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?"). Time binds: "Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives." It's not a romantic view of marriage, but nor is it a cynical one, and it seems to me a very true one. There is actually something quite beautiful in it: "Early love is exciting and exhilaratingâ¦Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the bestâwell, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word."
The best part of the novel is that along with a well told story, it gives the gift of introspection about your own life, how you have changed, the effects of your changes, and a fresh take on your current life.
After losing 10 years of her memories, Alice has the emotions of her 29 year old self, and total confusion of why she is/is not friends with people, and how in the world she ended up in a divorce process. The transformation of Alice when she finally merges her 29 year old optimism with the intervening events as she regains her memories is wonderful. I actually may reread this book!
After losing 10 years of her memories, Alice has the emotions of her 29 year old self, and total confusion of why she is/is not friends with people, and how in the world she ended up in a divorce process. The transformation of Alice when she finally merges her 29 year old optimism with the intervening events as she regains her memories is wonderful. I actually may reread this book!
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