Always Alice After All($19.95Value)

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The author, Alice Tipton LaFleur, begins her story on a somber note, with an event that received extensive and excruciating media coverage and brought back to her the outrage she felt over the sexual bullying of women, and worse. The memoir recounts drama, and trauma, but there are tender moments, joy and excitement, and laughs and giggles too, a whole lifetime’s worth. Moving back and forth episodically through singular events of her childhood and adult life, the author presents a lively and revealing account of her years spent as a youngster with her mom and dad in Japan, Korea, and Fort Lee, Virginia, and later, as a (more than?) slightly wild teen, in Turkey and, as she calls it, “Ala-damn-bama.” Her college years in Knoxville and Fort Collins, and her move to the University of Georgia, in Athens, for graduate study, brought more escapades, and two degrees, but also challenges and even tragedy. The memoir’s later chapters recount her move from Athens to Mississippi with her husband-to-be, and then their years together back in Georgia, raising children, building a home, and suffering the chaos and sadness of break-up. The book concludes with her meeting, dating, marrying, and settling into retirement with her second husband, a Classics professor, and the ongoing adventures and peregrinations between their Lake Oglethorpe home in Arnoldsville GA and their vacation getaways in Little Switzerland NC and on the Florida Panhandle. The story is, well, always Alice—and so, always enthralling.