Cheshire Public Library, presents an author event with Laura Harrington featuring her debut novel
Alice Bliss. This event is made possible through a grant from the
Connecticut Humanities Council.
This book is suitable for teens through adults. Please register for this program at www.cheshirelibrary.com.
Laura
Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and librettist. She
teaches play writing at MIT and lives in Gloucester, MA. ALICE BLISS, her first novel, grew out of Harrington's one-woman musical, Alice Unwrapped, which ran off-Broadway in New York and in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival in 2009.
ALICE BLISS, the
debut novel from award-winning playwright Laura Harrington, is a coming
of age story that is both timeless and incredibly timely. Currently
there are more than 300,000 teens in the US with family members who are
deployed-ALICE BLISS movingly illuminates the impact of war on those
left at home: children, partners, family members, and the community.
When
Alice learns her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken.
Matt Bliss is leaving just as his daughter blossoms into a full-blown
teenager. She will learn to drive, shop for a dress for her first dance,
and fall in love all while trying to be strong for her mother and take
care of her younger sister.
She
is a tremendous girl, one who sneaks her way into your heart with her
strength, her vulnerability, and her struggles with the trappings of
being an awkward teen, confronting life without her beloved father. His
scent is fading from the shirt of his she wears every day, and his phone
calls are never enough.
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A profoundly moving, uplifting novel ALICE
BLISS is a story about those who are left at home during wartime and a teenage girl bravely facing the future.
