This book is a pinprick in the eye of readers everywhere. Speaking of eyes, did you know that Alice Sebold can't go two pages without describing people's eyes? Ocean eyes, ferocious olives for eyes… it's like the only defining feature anyone has in this book is their eyes. (However, I do recall o...
This is what I remember. This is the first line in Lucky, Alice Sebold's memoir of her rape and its aftermath. It's the kind of first line that hooks you as you stand in the aisle of Barnes & Noble, or as you browse the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon. It's the kind of line that demands you read ...
When I read The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s bestselling first novel, I thought, now what? What does an author write after that? How could she possibly top this novel? Three short years later Alice follows with a realistic, maybe too real, new novel, The Almost Moon, that promises to ease its way...