Don't Go Ask Alice; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Part Two

The real author of Go Ask Alice, not “Alice” and not “Anonymous, but a disaffected Mormon mom from Utah, Mrs. Beatrice Sparks, has the fictive diarist try her best to “stay away from drugs,” to “keep away from boys,” but drugs. “Alice” (never named) gets clean--and then relapses. She goes to j

ail--and gets out. On probation, she’s caught in a police raid--then gets out and runs away. She hitchhik...