Alice Isn’t Dead
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3.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching – and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected.
Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral.
But then Keisha began 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 the scene of every tragedy in the country.
Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker – hoping on some level that travelling the length of the country will lead her to the person she loves.
What she finds are buried crimes and monsters (both human and unimaginable), government conspiracies, haunted service stations and a darkness far older than the highway system it lies beneath.
Cast in the fluorescent lights of midnight diner-signs, this story is as big as the open road and as intimate as the darkness of a trucker’s cab: perfect for fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and American Gods.
Reviews
“ … Thrilling … Creator of the popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, Fink fills his world with fully realized characters … Fans of eerie suspense will find much to like.”
Publishers Weekly
PRAISE FOR WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
‘Clever, twisted, beautiful, strange, wonderful and sweet . . . this might be the best book I've read in years’
New York Times bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss
‘I'm packing up and moving to Night Vale!’
New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs
'Cultural phenomenon'
Telegraph
'As hilarious as it is macabre'
Time Out
About the author
JOSEPH FINK created and co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started a very small publishing company, producing two collections of short works which he edited and laid out at his office job when his boss wasn't looking. Since then, he has created three wildly successful podcast series and authored two New York Times bestselling novels. He is from California but doesn't live there anymore.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 Night Vale 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.)
