The World After Alice

The poignant debut novel of two families brought together to celebrate an unexpected marriage over a sunny Maine weekend, for fans of Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout.When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware their relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the loss of sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji's sister and Morgan's best friend. No one is quite the same. As the headstrong young couple brings the two families together for the first time since the funeral, they wonder- can old wounds truly be mended? When the guests descend upon the tranquil coastal town for the whirlwind nuptials, it soon becomes clear that these estranged families are not ready to move on.Will the fragile peace the wedding offers survive the sunny weekend? Or are these two families about to find out that the darkest secrets always come to light in the end?

A lovely debut novel that glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight. There's a quiet beauty to Lauren Aliza Green's work, and I am now a fan -- Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
Deeply moving . . . reflects on the different ways grief affects people, the complex nature of families, and how lies and deceit and tear fragile relationships apart Heat
A 'sizzling summer read' Grazia
A 'Literary Summer Romance' Pick Vogue
This dramatic tragi-comedy, full of delicious bourgeois lifestyle detail takes us right into the head of each character Daily Mail
A page-turner of a family drama . . . at turns brutally honest, funny, and deeply empathic -- Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
A bouquet of a book: thoughtful, heartfelt, funny, tender, tough, and gorgeously written. It is a novel about how love won't save you, except in the ways that it does, about the pain of family life, and also its transcendent qualities. Green is a tremendous new writer -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
A captivating romance Woman's Weekly
Gripping . . . a pool side page-turner Sainsbury's Magazine
Intricately structured and elegantly written, The World After Alice is a family drama that pivots between the sweeping and the intimate in seamless, wildly entertaining prose -- Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

Lauren Aliza Green holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and was one of Forbes' '30 under 30' in the 2024 media category. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train (winner of the New Writer's Award), and elsewhere. She is the author of A Great Dark House, which won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship, and the inaugural recipient of the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award, sponsored by Poetry Ireland and Stanford University. Her writing has received support from the Kenyon Review Workshop, Bread Loaf, and the Carson McCullers Center. Lauren lives in New York City.

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