Alice Bliss

By Laura Harrington

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Teenage girls, Iraq war, 2003-2011, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Iraq War, 2003-2011, United states, fiction, Families of military personnel, Loss (Psychology), Iraq War, 2003-, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fathers and daughters

Description: When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie.