This news prompts her to settle more permanently with Alice in Brooklyn. Another time Ella discovered Alice following Althea’s online fans in chat rooms and message boards Ella was very upset, and Alice decided to give up her interest Althea and the book altogether.Įlla receives a letter saying Althea is dead. Over the years Ella discouraged Alice’s fascination with the book once, Alice found a copy and began to read a story called “Alice-Three-Times,” but Ella took the book away. Once, when Alice was six, a redhaired man kidnapped her briefly, saying that he was taking her to see her grandmother, but Ella got Alice back safely. It acquired a following of fans and became impossible to purchase anywhere. Althea, a recluse, wrote one published book, Tales from the Hinterland. Alice often daydreamed that her grandmother, Althea Proserpine, would invite them to come stay at her estate in upstate New York, the Hazel Wood. Bad luck drove them to crisscross the country. Alice and her mother, Ella, spent Alice’s childhood and teen years living as vagrants, moving frequently, staying in the spare rooms of Ella’s acquaintances. Alice Proserpine, 17, now lives in New York City in a luxurious apartment and attends an elite private school-but her life was very different until this year.
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