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WE CAN ONLY SAVE OURSELVES - ALISON WISDOM KART...

Alison Wisdom's addictive  down-the-rabbit-hole debut reads like The Girls by way of The Virgin
Suicides  with an extra dash of Cheever's unsettling suburbia. The result is sinister and
surprising: a novel I couldn't put down  and one that I kept thinking about long after I'd
reached its unexpected  chilling end. —Emily Temple  author of The LightnessOne of Newsweek 
Bustle  and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books and Goodreads' Debut Novels to Discover in 2021  We
Can Only Save Ourselves is the story of one teenage girl's unlikely indoctrination and the
reverberations in the tight-knit community she leaves behind.Alice Lange's neighbors are proud
to know her—a high-achieving student  cheerleader  and all-around good citizen  she's a perfect
emblem of their sunny neighborhood. The night before she's expected to be crowned Homecoming
Queen  though  she commits an act of vandalism  then disappears  following a magnetic stranger
named Wesley to a bungalow in another part of the state. There  he promises  Alice can be her
true self  shedding the shackles of conformity. At the bungalow  however  she learns that four
other young women seeking enlightenment and adventure have already followed him there. Her new
lifestyle is intoxicating at first  but as Wesley's demands on all of them increase  the house
becomes a pressure cooker—until one day they reach the point of no return.Back home  the story
of Alice's disappearance and radicalization is framed by the first-person plural chorus of the
mothers who knew her before  who worry about her  but also resent the tear she made in the
fabric of their perfect world  one that exposes the question: Isn't suburbia a kind of cult
unto itself? Combining the sharp social critique of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere with
the elegiac beauty of Emma Cline's The Girls  this is a fierce literary debut from a writer to
watch.

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