At eighteen, Alice escapes the grip of her clinging mother and leaves Queens with a Columbia law student and four others to live primitively in rural West Virginia. Called back home by her ailing mother, she seeks answers to why her father disappeared. Her mother takes the secret to her grave. Alice is ready to move on until a visit from a plainclothes detective and cryptic messages from fortune cookies appear. | Alice Black by J. Schlenker, Paperback | Indigo Chapters