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Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice's hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the facade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice's mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers. It's the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants. Caught in a period of personal and community transformation, Alice and Nickson must navigate their way through vastly different traditions while fighting to create new ones of their own. Funny and provocative, amusing and unsettling, The Fall of Alice K. marks a watershed moment in the publishing career of author, Jim Heynen.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Fall of Alice K.
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Jim Heynen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781571310897
• ISBN: 1571310894
• ID: 04818934
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Weight: 581 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. September 2012

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