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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Readers say *What Alice Forgot* by Liane Moriarty is a thought-provoking, relatable exploration of memory, identity, and life’s changes over a decade....
Good read....particularly for a woman who is married with children. I enjoyed the author's writing style, too.
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 Nick…They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same place…" 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 exhilarating…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 best—well, 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 Nick…They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same place…" 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 exhilarating…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 best—well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word."
could not get into this book at all...Alice may have forgotten something but she's overly talkative!
Wowee wow wow
Picked this up from the free media section in the library several months ago and finally read.
Liana Moriarty never disappoints.
5/5 easy!
Picked this up from the free media section in the library several months ago and finally read.
Liana Moriarty never disappoints.
5/5 easy!
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