Alice Sadie Celine

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

eBook - 2023

"Obsessed!" —Chloë Sevigny "I am literally obsessed." —Busy Philipps Hailed as "richly intimate" and "wickedly delightful" (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman's affair with her daughter's best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.It's the opening night, but Alice's performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale is far from glamourous. She doesn't have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn't exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic, seriou...s Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school—really one another's only friend—but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at... more