Alice Adriftby Susan BaconPublication date: November 4th 2025Genres: Contemporary, Women’s Fiction Alice Adrift is an intimate human drama about loss and recovery, coupling and uncoupling, and a child caught in the turmoil. It’s the 1990s. The Fishers—Alice, David and their two sons, Tobias and Jeremiah—live in the upper Northwest quadrant of Washington DC, home to an urbane mix of journalists, academics and professionals. Alice is a composer and music professor. Her husband is an architect of some note. The economy is booming. Life is good. But their seemingly perfect existence is shattered when Jeremiah, their youngest, dies suddenly of an unidentifiable…
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