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Alice Isn’t Dead

By: Joseph Fink
Narrated by: Jasika Nicole
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About this listen

From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching – and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected.

Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral.

But then Keisha began to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America.

Alice isn’t dead. And she is showing up at the scene of every tragedy in the country.

Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker – hoping on some level that travelling the length of the country will lead her to the person she loves.

What she finds are buried crimes and monsters (both human and unimaginable), government conspiracies, haunted service stations and a darkness far older than the highway system it lies beneath.

Cast in the fluorescent lights of midnight diner-signs, this story is as big as the open road and as intimate as the darkness of a trucker’s cab: perfect for fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and American Gods.

©2018 Joseph Fink (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Genre Fiction Horror Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Romance Suspense Tear-jerking Marriage

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Critic reviews

"Thrilling... Creator of the popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, Fink fills his world with fully realised characters... Fans of eerie suspense will find much to like.” (Publishers Weekly)

"Clever, twisted, beautiful, strange, wonderful and sweet...this might be the best book I've read in years." (New York Times best-selling author Patrick Rothfuss)

"I'm packing up and moving to Night Vale!" (New York Times best-selling author Ransom Riggs)

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Completely brilliant story, twists and turns with a wonderful sombre ending. Teaching forgiveness and that being yourself and being scared is perfectly okay.

Brilliant

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I love this book wholeheartedly. The shape of the story wraps around you in a way that makes it feel familiar. The characters are relatable and the strangeness of the story feels like its going to seep into the reap world. Stunningly well written. The performance by Jasika Nicole was fantastic, full of feeling and drew me in.

A Wonderful Atmospheric Book

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Honestly this was slightly disappointing, whilst it was nostalgic to hear Alice and Keisha’s story again, what we have here is a watered down version of the original. What was subtle is now painful opaque, what was ambiguous is now explicit, all the little episodic adventures are gone.

Alice and Keisha are much more rounded and developed but I prefer the epistolary nature of the original, it felt more real, whereas Fink’s omniscient narration feels like he’s explaining the story to you.

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I particularly loved Fink's postscript on his own anxiety. thank you. podcast is also recommended.

An interesting twist on the podcast

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I think this is my favourite work from this author, almost had me in tears walking home at the end.

beautiful n emotive as hell

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Left it with a 4/5 overall because some of my favourite parts from the podcast didn't make it into the final cut of the book. Both are still very good and well worth the listen, but I miss the road trip bits missing here.

It's good

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As someone who suffers from anxiety I loved the depiction of itym and the fact it wasn't something to be "overcome". The "monsters" were terrifying in a human way which kept me listening right to the end. Now I need to go and pick up the Nightvale podcast I discarded many years ago! I missed it.

Brilliant horror/action

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