A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright about “Alice Sadie Celine” – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright about “Alice Sadie Celine” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Sadie and Alice have been best friends since high school and now live on opposite ends of California. When budding actress Alice comes back to the Bay Area to perform in a basement-theater production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, she expects reliable Sadie to attend opening night. But her friend has special plans of … Read more

Trying to Outrun Pandemic Anxiety in Shetterly’s “Pete and Alice in Maine” – Chicago Review of Books

Trying to Outrun Pandemic Anxiety in Shetterly’s “Pete and Alice in Maine” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Every month there seems to be another book steeped in the pandemic’s effect. All that time in lockdown must have gone to good use writing pandemic novels and now they’re all getting published, or at least ending up on my desk to review.  Caitlin Shetterly’s debut novel, Pete and Alice in Maine, confronts the … Read more