The Final Alice

<p>When thirty year old Alice Pleasance feels her life and writing career going nowhere she fears her namesake ancestor a resourceful girl immortalized in a classic novel would be disappointed by and ashamed of her failures. This fear is abated when Alice is approached by a talking deer who explains that Alice has been chosen to battle the Red King a manipulative and evil shape-shifter in order to thwart his plans to infect and control humanity. Mysterious and ominous appearances of the numbers 10:10 convince Alice that although she may not know what is coming she must relinquish self doubt to defeat it. Joined by a makeshift army of two telekinetic children a dog who grows to dragon-size a pair of ex-soldier Nigerian twins and a bodiless Compass who desperately wants to become a real girl Alice prepares for a terrifying and unpredictable confrontation.</p><p>A ring of child pornographers cruel office managers sadistic cheerleaders and a two-headed contractor are only some of the obstacles Alice must face and eliminate in order to own her role in a family well-versed in nightmarish fairy tales and spiritual riddles.</p><p>Funny poignant provocative and disturbing the story illustrates the epic details often existing in everyday life the power of imagination and the requirements of redemption. This surreal adult adventure is a new slice of Wonderland for a very modern audience.</p><p>A lysergic head trip of a novel <em>The Final Alice </em>is the rare tale that possesses equal measures of heart wit and inspired demented madness. Alycia Ripley's fine novel deserves to be read re-read analyzed debated and perhaps become the sacred text of a passionate cult.</p><p><em>-James Ponsoldt writer/director of Off the Black Smashed </em>and <em>The Spectacular Now</em></p><p> </p>