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Alice Isn't Dead

A Novel

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2 of 2 copies available

A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.

"This isn't a story. It's a road trip."

Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country.
Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. She eventually stumbles on an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation's highway system—uncovering a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 20, 2018
      Based on the podcast of the same name, Fink’s thrilling first solo novel follows a woman thrown into the middle of a secret war that takes place in the vast, empty stretches of America. Keisha Taylor believed her wife, Alice, dead after she disappeared without a trace. Then, six months after the funeral, Keisha sees Alice in the background of a news report. Thus begins her search, crisscrossing America after getting a job as a long-distance trucker, following up leads culled from Alice’s notes and papers. Along the way, she’s threatened by monsters called Thistle Men and discovers a vast conspiracy that protects them as they prey upon people along the highways. Creator of the popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, Fink (It Devours! with Jeffrey Cranor) fills his world with fully realized characters, from Keisha, who uses her grief and anxiety to give herself strength, to Sylvia, the runaway teenager who fights against the Thistle Men who killed her mom. Fans of eerie suspense will find much to like. Agent: Jodi Reamer, Writers House.

    • Kirkus

      August 15, 2018
      A female big-rig driver crisscrosses America searching for signs of the wife everyone else thinks is dead.This spooky third novel by Welcome to Night Vale creator Fink (It Devours!, 2017, etc.) is similarly based on an original podcast and offers a more threatening but equally personal take on the horror genre. Switching from the podcast's intimate first-person narration, delivered with powerful emotion by actress Jasika Nicole, allows Fink to stretch out into the more remote corners of his mythos while delivering the same scary beats. The main character is Keisha Taylor, whose wife, Alice, disappeared while working for the mysterious Bay and Creek trucking company: "No cause of death. No body. No certainty. There was a disappearance, and after a long and increasingly hopeless search, the presumption of death." Now Keisha has taken a job with the company as a long-haul driver, which thrusts her firmly into the eerie mythology at work here. Keisha is a fascinating character partially because one of her defining characteristics is chronic anxiety, and it's a potent imperfection for a character who battles literal monsters on a regular basis. Along the way, Fink unveils the strange universe that swallowed Alice whole, revealing an underground war between two secret societies, time-bending oracles, and other Lovecraft-ian horrors. He also gives Keisha a charismatic ally in Sylvia Parker, a teen on the run who becomes her "anxiety bro," and a bloodcurdling enemy in the macabre, twisted police officer who stalks her across the span of the country. But the book also tempers its terrors with everyday humanity, portraying the mundane joys of love, the rich fabric of the American countryside, and surreal "Why did the chicken cross the road?" jokes that are a hallmark of the podcast. By the time Keisha learns Alice's fate, readers will realize that this marvelous character is more than the sum of her faceless anxiety or her very real fears.A terrifying new storytelling experience that affirms, even in our darkest moments, that love conquers all.

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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2018
      Fink (Welcome to Night Vale?, 2015, with Jeffrey Cranor) opens his newest book with a confession: he suffers from anxiety. While his anxiety is often crippling, Fink has channeled that fear into writing some of the most engrossing supernatural stories out there today. Readers who cope with a similar disposition are sure to identify with the book's two main characters, Alice and Keisha, who navigate their own anxieties in an exceptionally terrifying atmosphere. Alice has been missing for so long that her wife, Keisha, is forced to assume she is dead. Keisha tries to move on, until she recognizes Alice in the background of a TV-news segment. Desperate for answers, Keisha becomes a truck driver for the same company Alice was working for when she disappeared and travels across the country in pursuit of her wife. But Keisha soon discovers a dangerous world of roadside bogeymen, leaving her with more questions than answers. The travelers in all of us are sure to enjoy this road trip of a book, even if it means getting lost along the way.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2018

      Keisha Lewis keeps seeing her presumably dead wife, Alice, off to the side in news stories and seeks her nationwide by becoming a trucker. Instead, she uncovers an out-of-this-world conspiracy. From the creator of the popular Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts.

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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