The hilarious diary of Alice and her attempts to survive the embarrassments that are her parents, the smallminded nature of her hometown, and her own struggle to fit in. Highly observant, satirical and wise. Fifteen years old and nursing a "serious case of outcastitis," Alice MacLeod is having a hard time finding anything much to like in small town Smithers, British Columbia. Her mums a folkfestival hippie chick with a hairtrigger temper, her dads a mild and reasonable sort of loser who hides out in the basement trying to write softcore romance novels, and her last school counsellor threw a teary fit in the middle of a session and left the profession entirely. Shed love to "get past what my father calls my kneejerk dislike of just about anything," but shes not sure that theres anything out there thats worth it.Alices journal is filled with eyerolling protests at the embarrassments and stupidities she finds herself surrounded with her mothers drummingcircle friends, the therapeutic jargon thrown her way by counsellors and the outstanding inefficacity of her current counsellor, Death Lord Bob. But Alices sharp bark doesnt do much to conceal her lack of a bite. Its her mum, after all, not Alice, who gets into a fistfight with Linda, the towns teen thug, while Alice sits cringing in the family car. In fact, Alice has a sweet side, which she makes all the more endearing by getting all squirmy and ashamed whenever she reveals it. Alices fierce ungainliness, and her...

Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 355.41 g; Dimensions: N/A

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