Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town , and tries to pass high school biology.
But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice\'s mother, without warning, note, or apology, deliberately parks her car on the railroad tracks, in the path of an oncoming t.
It\'s 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional.
Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town , and tries to pass high school biology