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The Fall of Alice K. a Novel
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- ISBN: 9781571318695 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1571318690 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (369 p.) - Publisher: New York : Milkweed Editions, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | PART I: September, 1999; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; PART II: October, 1999; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; PART III: November, 1999; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; PART IV: December, 1999; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; Acknowledgments; Milkweed Editions; Join Us. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice's hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice's mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers. It's the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants.
