Finding Alice Finding Alice

Finding Alice

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Publisher Description

Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?

On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college, a new world of voices, visions, and unexplainable “knowledge” causes Alice to begin to lose her grip on reality.

As Alice’s schizophrenia progresses, she experiences a disturbing religious “awakening,” believing that God and angels and demons are speaking to her. When others attempt to intervene, Alice is subjected to a wide range of “treatments” even more frightening and painful than her illness.

Powerfully raw and brutally honest, Finding Alice is a story of individual suffering and hope, a family’s shared ordeal, and a search for true mental and spiritual healing.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2003
September 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
The Crown Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.5
MB

Customer Reviews

kitten0615 ,

AMAZING

This is one of the most moving pieces of literature I have read in a very long time.
I would recommend it to everyone, since it is magnificent.
The writing is fantastic, and the book and topic are very real.

TWilson9608 ,

Schizophrenia

I grew up with a mother who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and after reading this I couldn't help but wonder if Melody Carlson also grew up with someone close to her having this illness as well. The story was spot on and in some ways it made me feel closer to my own mother. This was hard for me, emotionally, to read but I have read it three times now and it is still one of my favorites!

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