A house for Alice
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2023].
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages : 25 cm.
Status
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Alamosa Public Library - FICTION | FICTION EVA | On Shelf |
Limon Memorial Library - FICTION | FIC EVA | On Shelf |
Ruby Sisson Library - FICTION | FIC EVAN, D | On Shelf |
Security Public Library - FICTION | F EVANS | On Shelf |
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
Subjects
LC Subjects
Bereavement -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
England -- Fiction
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary
Generational trauma -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Nigerians -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Return migration -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
England -- Fiction
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary
Generational trauma -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Nigerians -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Return migration -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2023].
Format
Book
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt—estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch—takes his final breaths alone. These twin tragedies open Diana Evans’s A House for Alice, an aching portrait of a family of women shaken by loss and searching for closure. At the novel’s center is Alice herself, the Pitt matriarch who, after fifty years in England, now longs to live out her final years in her homeland of Nigeria. Her three daughters are torn on the issue of whether she stays or goes, and while youngest sibling Melissa also grapples with the embers of her own failed relationship, the Pitt family’s foundational pillars—of trust, love, and cultural identity—begin to crack. Intimately drawn and set against a fraught political backdrop, yet equally full of hope, humor, and humanity, A House for Alice traces the scars of grief and betrayal across generations and uncovers the secrets we keep from those closest to us." --publisher's website
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Evans, D. (2023). A house for Alice (First United States edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Evans, Diana, 1971-. 2023. A House for Alice. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Evans, Diana, 1971-. A House for Alice Pantheon Books, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Evans, Diana. A House for Alice First United States edition., Pantheon Books, 2023.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Loading Staff View.