by Susan Sontag
First published 1993
Confined to her bed, Alice James - sister of authors William and Henry - escapes into a world of imagination. Visited by the likes of Lewis Carroll's Alice, Emily Dickinson, and Margaret Fuller, she grapples with her own identity and place in the literary canon. As her visions blur the line between reality and fantasy, Alice must confront the physical and emotional limitations of her existence.
Genres: 20th-century, biographical-fiction, 19th-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Period: 19th Century
117 pages · Paperback · Farrar, Straus and Giroux