Go Ask Alice, a Review
Anonymous
GENRE: Realistic Fiction or personal Non-fiction
THEME: Growing up, Family, Responsibility, Drugs, Sexuality, and Identity
RL/IL: Young Adult, Middle School or High School
AWARDS:
PAGES: 205
Warnings: Sex, drugs, molestation, homosexuality
Alice begins her diary out of necessity. She is looking for someone to talk to, someone to share her feelings of isolation from her family and her world. Instead, her diary turns into a chronicle of drug and sexual abuse. Initially, her experimentation with drugs is an accident; her friends play an “adult version” of spin the bottle, spiking her Coke with LSD. After her fascinating experience, a good first trip, Alice begins to experiment to fit in, only to find out that drugs can not mask her loneliness and unfulfillment.
Alice deals with many teenage problems including the simple concerns such as popularity, sex, homework, weight, and freedom. However, the deeper Alice gets into drugs, the more serious her problems become. She must learn to deal with sexual molestation, severe anxiety, guilt about selling drugs to young children, and remorse for what she has done to her parents.
The horrifying truth to this novel is that Alice could be anyone of us. Go Ask Alice
I recommend that every teenager girl (and boy) read this book because it does tell a horrifying story of drugs. It doesn’t glorify drugs but it tells the truth.
CONNECTIONS:
Speak
Cut
Getting The Girl
Push: A Novel
Tyrell
Pure Sunshine
Candy
i well have read this book years a go as well as seen the movie of it and yes i must say it is a verry good book
I also remember reading this as a child. It was a book that sparked my interest in reading more diaries and further along auto-biographies and biographies. This title was one that I have always remembered perhaps not do to every little detail but the overall impact that it placed on my little life.