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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://macalester.worldcat.org/oclc/1017475868 Title: What Alice forgot Author: Liane Moriarty Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2017. ©2009 ISBN/ISSN: 9780451490445 0451490444 OCLC:1017475868

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What Alice forgot

Author:	Liane Moriarty
Publisher:	New York : Berkley, 2017. ©2009
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : Berkley premium editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.

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Genre/Form:	Domestic fiction Fiction
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Liane Moriarty Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780451490445 0451490444
OCLC Number:	1017475868
Notes:	Includes Readers Guide and excerpt from: Big Little Lies. "Pan Macmillan Australia trade paperback edition / January 2009. Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / June 2011. Berkley trade paperback edition / May 2012." -- Title page verso.
Description:	535 pages ; 19 cm
Responsibility:	Liane Moriarty.
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Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.

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Can the breakdown of a marriage be reversed with a little amnesia?

by booksonthebeach (WorldCat user published 2018-01-12) Excellent

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I checked this book out because I'd read the cover in the course of designing a Readers' Advisory training, and the concept caught my attention: imagine waking up on the floor of your gym having forgotten the last 10 years of your life, including giving birth to your three children and separating from your--the last you remember--beloved husband. But this story turned out to be so much more absorbing than I even expected!

I would almost categorize it as a mystery, since Alice has to piece together tiny fragments of memory and search for clues in an attempt to reconstruct her missing decade. She's appalled by the sharp, unpleasant woman she seems to have become and devastated by the disintegration of her relationships with her friends and family. They, in turn, don't know what to make of the "new Alice" and are uncertain how to react. Which is the real Alice, and what will happen as her memory returns?

So often I wished I could jump into the book and tell Alice to go online and sign up for Alison Armstrong's workshops at <a style="color: #00635d; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;" rel="nofollow" href="http://understandmen.com/" target="_blank">http://understandmen.com/</a> because the disintegration of her marriage was a perfect case study of what happens when men & women don't understand each other. (I also wanted to tell Nick to go to the same website and sign up for the Understanding Women workshop.)

This would be a great book group choice, and there are some excellent discussion questions at the end of this book. What would your 10-years-ago-self think of your current self? What happened in your life, what choices did you and others make over that timespan, that led to the person you are today?

Now that I know what an outstanding writer Ms. Moriarty is, I'll be putting myself on the hold lists for her other books.

For readers' advisors: character doorway is primary, story secondary. There is some kissing and mention of sex. I've forgotten whether there is much swearing, although there probably is some (my checkout expired yesterday, so I can't double-check). No violence.

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