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Award-winning and New York Times best-selling writer Charles Bock acquired huge critical acclaim for his debut novel, Beautiful Children. Now, in Alice & Oliver, he has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family's journey via a medical turmoil, laying bare a couple's love and worries as they combat for everything that's important to them. NY, 1993. Alice Culvert is a nurturing better half, a doting new mom, a loyal good friend, and a soulful designer - a designer who wears a newborn carrier and haute couture with identical aplomb. In their loft in Manhattan's gritty Meatpacking Area, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are boosting their infant little girl, Doe, delighting in the miracles of early on parenthood. Their life collectively feels so essential and packed with promise, which makes Alice's sudden cancer tumor medical diagnosis especially staggering. Within the span of an individual day, the couple's emphasis narrows to the basic question of her survival. Though they actually their best to stay brave, each encounters gigantic pressure: Oliver tries to find their way a labyrinthine health care system and take care of their mounting medical bills; Alice tries to be hopeful as her body converts against her. Bracing themselves for the unthinkable, they need to confront the new realities of their matrimony, their advantages as associates and defects as people, how to nourish love against all probabilities, and what it means to truly care for another person. Influenced by the author's life, Alice & Oliver is a deeply influencing novel written with stunning reserves of compassion, humor, and wisdom. Alice Culvert is an extraordinary personality - a female of incredible heart and spirit who'll remain in storage long after the final minute.
