Anonymous. (1971). Go Ask Alice. (p. 185). Aladdin Paperback.
ISBN: 0-689-81785-1
Classification: classics
Genre: non-fiction
Age Level: 12+
Subjects: coming of age, drug addiction, sexuality, death, friends and family
Awards: N/A
Reader's Annotation: An anonymous journal of a teenage female in the late 1960's during her experiences with drug addiction.
Summary: The anonymous author of this journal was just fourteen when she experiened her first acid trip and began her foray into drug abuse and addiction. The author nicknamed "Alice," takes the reader on a trip of emotional highs and lows as she lives her life in between drug trips, periods of sobriety and reconciliations with her parents after running away from home twice. By the time "Alice" is sixteen, she had begun working on her sobriety but the drug crowd she used to be friends with attempts to make it difficult for her to maintain her commitment of staying clean with their constant harrassment. What results is a compelling, often terrifying and heartbreaking caution tale of drug use and abuse.
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