num_pages: 240
description: Wisconsin is not where Alice, a girl raised in Florida, meant to end up. But when she falls in love with Anders Dahl, a descendant of Norwegian farmers born for generations in the same stone farmhouse, she realizes that to love Anders is to settle into a life in Wisconsin in the small house they buy before their daughter, Maude, is born. Together, Alice and Anders move forward into a life of family, friends, and the occasional troubled student until they face their biggest challenge. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Jesse Lee Kercheval’s The Alice Stories tells the tale of a the pain of loss and the importance of the love of friends in the midst of turmoil. As timely as the news yet informed by rich humor and a deep understanding of human character, the interlinked Alice Stories form a luminous tale of family life.
language: English
title: The Alice Stories
titlecomplete: The Alice Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 36
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prairie Schooner Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: University of Nebraska Press