“What Alice Forgot” By Liane Moriarty

I just finished the second season of the television show “Big Little Lies” on HBO. I don’t want to share any spoilers, but I will say this - to see Laura Dern wielding a baseball bat in anger is a performance not to be missed. So that brings me to this little gem of a book “What Alice Forgot,” written by Liane Moriarty, the same author of “Big Little Lies.” I bought this book in paperback and used it as my summer travel book, the one I would turn to when my devices lost all charge and I had to read the old fashioned way. “What Alice Forgot” opens literally with a women waking up at the gym with amnesia. She thinks she is 29 years old, pregnant with her first child and happily married. Unfortunately her reality is much different. She is 39 years old, the mother of three cranky children and smack-dab in the middle of a heated divorce. I loved every page of this book because like Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Moriarty’s Alice Love must figure out how to survive after falling down the rabbit hole. Her family and friends give her very little guidance as she tries to uncover why her sister is mad at her, why her mother is married to a new man and why her own husband is so darn hostile. I appreciated not only Moriarty’s writing but also the strong, quirky, charming and vibrant women she creates within the pages of her books. I also had forgotten how satisfying it is to finish a paperback novel, and then leave it behind in the seat pocket of an airplane like buried treasure waiting for someone else to discover. To purchase this book on Amazon click here.