The World After Alice

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

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

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

A 'sizzling summer read'

A 'Literary Summer Romance' Pick

This dramatic tragi-comedy , full of delicious bourgeois lifestyle detail takes us right into the head of each character

A page-turner of a family drama . . . at turns brutally honest, funny, and deeply empathic

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

A captivating romance

Gripping . . . a pool side page-turner

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

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.