Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington
353 pages~6 hrs
“In a world defined by status, identity is the ultimate performance.”
Alice Adams is a spirited young woman caught between her humble reality and the glittering social circles of the Midwestern elite. As she constructs an elaborate facade to win over a wealthy suitor, she must navigate the painful gap between her family’s struggles and her own desperate dreams of reinvention.
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