What Alice Forgot
by Liane Moriarty
by Liane Moriarty
Synopsis
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.
So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on 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. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over…
Review
I absolutely LOVED the premise and the story line of this book. But with one caveat, this book seemed to take me FOREVER to read. The story line moved dreadfully slow at some points and Elizabeth & Frannie's story lines seem to detract at times from Alice's - or I just found myself only wanting to read about Alice. But that is the only bad thing I am going to say about this book. Because really it was so well written and so visual - I could totally picture the whole thing. The meringue pie making scene was so hilarious and one I think I will always remember.
What I loved most about this book was the way it made me look at my own life (and isn't that what we love so much about books?) as if it were through Alice's point of view. What decisions do we make in life that take us to where we are now versus ten years ago or ten years in the future? Are we building the life we always imagined or are we off course? This book was a thinker for sure. And for a reader that is usually hypercritical of book endings, I really liked the way this book ended. To make the book even more interesting I just heard about a real-life example of memory loss like this that mirrored the book quite closely on The American Life's recent episode. Check that out - it's in Act 2 and is definitely worth a listen!
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