Slim and powerful, I highly recommend ALICE for fans of literary fiction. These linked stories are wonderfully written. I enjoy how the author does not devolve into melodrama or sentimentality. I was not previously familiar with this author, but I look forward to learning more about her backlist. ALICE is spare and lovely and speaks to the practical difficulties in real life when a person dies. The author does not wallow in feelings of grief, however. I thoroughly enjoyed these exquisite interconnected pieces.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance e-galley; all opinions in my review are 100% my own.

Quiet, haunting, and beautifully restrained. Alice unfolds as five linked stories connected by grief, loss and memory — each a careful observation of life after death. Hermann’s prose is spare and exact, turning the ordinary into something painfully fragile. It’s a melancholic, thoughtful portrait of mourning and what remains when someone is gone.