一则关于迷失与寻找的心灵寓言 工作、家庭、现实、梦想,即便不堪生活的重负,年轻的心依然跃跃欲试。 即将迎来40岁生日的爱丽丝,在健身房的一次意外中不幸磕到头部,醒来之后她丢失了十年的记忆,印象中的一切都还是自己29岁时的样子。然而十年间,岁月这把利剑已经把爱丽丝的生活雕刻成她曾经极度厌恶和恐惧的样子。29岁的她想要挽回曾经无比珍爱的婚姻,想要把自己亲手毁掉的亲情和友情再次找回来。然而现实却并非她想象般容易…… 她的内心以为一切如故,但是身体却告诉她,时光已在她浑然不知的情况下溜走了。 爱丽丝记得的就是,阴云密布的天空中被怒风鞭打着的粉丝气球,和一阵无比揪心的巨大哀伤。 A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?” Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over—she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over...
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