Nov 18, 2008

Go Ask Alice | Overview

Go Ask Alice is written as the diary of a fifteen-year-old girl's day-to-day struggle with drug addiction. Created during the height of the drug era, the girl could be anyone from this time who found him or herself seduced by the mind-altering affects of marijuana, LSD, bennies, dexies, and heroin. When the book begins, the author of the diary is an ordinary teenager with ordinary teenage concerns. She is an innocent, yearning to see what life has to offer her, and she falls in with a group of kids headed on a destructive path. Wanting desperately to be part of the popular crowd,...