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 opening night, but Alice's performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale is far from glamorous. 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, serious Sad...ie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school—really one another's only friends—but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice... more