It's 1984. Alice Forrester is a twenty-three-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is taken to the emergency room of Seaview hospital - renowned for its eating disorders clinic. There, family and friends, in league with staff and doctors, intently try to steer her toward recovery. But it's not that simple. She passes time at the clinic waiting to find out the thing that is wrong with her. What happened. When and how the damage was done. Along the way, Alice encounters a fascinating array of oddballs and misfits - Dr. Paul, the physician who monitors this disparate group of afflicted young women; the psychiatric support staff whose treatment for anorexia revolves around a chillingly familiar Twelve Step program; wraithlike, flaxen-haired Gwen, whose anorexia ultimately turns into tragedy; and finally Maeve, raucous, vulgar, tender, and kind, who shakes up Alice's life and opens up her eyes. Shot through with wry wit and poignancy, The Passion of Alice is a re

The Passion of Alice

Literature & Fiction

Grant, Stephanie

Contemporary

Spectre

It's 1984. Alice Forrester is a twenty-five-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is taken to the emergency room of Seaview Hospital, renowned for its eating disorders clinic. There, family and friends in league with staff and doctors intently try to steer her toward recovery. But it's not that simple. She passes time at the clinic waiting to find out what is wrong with her. What happened. When and how the damage was done. Along the way, Alice encounters a fascinating array of oddballs and misfits - Dr. Paul, the physician who clinically evaluates and monitors this disparate group of afflicted young women; various members of the psychiatric support staff whose treatment of anorexia revolves around a chillingly familiar twelve-step program; wraithlike, flaxen-haired Gwen, whose anorexia ultimately turns into tragedy; and finally Maeve, raucous, vulgar, tender, and kind, who shakes up Alice's life and opens her eyes.

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

“In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root,” observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know better than twenty-five-year-old Alice, passionately committed to her own suffering—an all-consuming addiction to food deprivation—as a divine form of self-knowledge? After an episode of heart failure, Alice arrives in the eating disorder clinic of Seaview Hospital, where she detachedly watches a circus unfold . . . starring her perfectionist mother, Syd (“she’d been a synchronized swimmer in college”), her counselors (“the therapists are like tuning forks for epiphanies”), and the resident anorexics, bulimics, and compulsive eaters. But it is newcomer Maeve Sullivan, at once raucous and tender, with her fleshy body and hedonistic appetites, who turns Alice’s adventure beyond her own distorted looking glass into a new perception of herself—and who wakens an attraction that touches Alice’s soul and changes her life forever. Praise for The Passion of Alice “A smart, funny, wonderful book that will contain truth for every reader.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “[A] tart and edgy first novel . . . A rarity—an examination of a twenty-five-year-old woman’s peculiar inner life, wrapped in a sharp comedy of manners.”—Harper’s Bazaar “Stephanie Grant’s first novel is as grim as it is powerful, stripped entirely of the convenient life-affirming consolations and breakthroughs that can make ‘social issue’ fiction easier to take. Her prose style is relentlessly cool and stark, serving as x-ray vison that registers the hardest truths without prettification.”—The Boston Globe

The Passion of Alice: A Novel

Children's Books

Random House Publishing Group

Starting her junior year of high school during Boston's tumultuous integration uprisings in 1974, misfit Ann Ahern idolizes her exotic African teacher and embarks on a personal journey that takes her through the fringes of the Black Power movement. 25,000 first printing.

Map of Ireland: A Novel

United States

Scribner

In 1974, when Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis -- Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep Black children from the public schools, and teenagers are raising havoc in the streets. Ann, an outsider in her own Irish-American community, is infatuated with her beautiful French teacher, Mademoiselle Eugénie, who hails from Paris but is of African descent. Spurred by her adoration for Eugénie, Ann embarks on a journey that leads her beyond South Boston, through the fringes of the Black Power movement, toward love, and ultimately to the truth about herself.
In this ambitious and arresting novel, Stephanie Grant's searing prose, powerful storytelling, and richly drawn characters bring tumultuous moment in American history into perfect focus.

"When, in my twenties, I came out to my parents as a lesbian, I became an object of their disgust. As a result, I worked to eliminate disgust from my repertoire of emotions."\nIn this hybrid memoir, novelist Stephanie Grant works to make sense of three generations of female self-disgust in her family while considering how it challenges both the American ideal of equality and our real-life experiences of intimacy. Disgust: A Memoir is funny, tender, and rigorous in its exploration of how the most difficult emotion functions both in our private lives and our collective imaginations.

Disgust: A Memoir

Parenting & Relationships

Scuppernong Editions

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The Passion of Alice

The Passion of Alice

The Passion of Alice: A Novel

Map of Ireland: A Novel

Map of Ireland: A Novel

Disgust: A Memoir