Cheshire Reads Presents "Alice Bliss"

Cheshire
Reads, along with the Cheshire Public Library  presents an author event
with Laura Harrington featuring her novel Alice Bliss. This event is made

possible through a grant from the Connecticut Humanities

Council. Copies of the book are available through the Cheshire

Public Library.

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. A

profoundly moving, uplifting novel ALICE BLISS

teenage girl bravely facing the future.

ABOUT

THE AUTHOR:

librettist. She teaches playwriting 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.

For further

information or to register, please visit www.cheshirelibrary.ocm.