Alice Isn't Dead

Keisha Taylor thought she had buried her past when she held a funeral for the woman she loved, but then she begins to see Alice alive in the background of news footage and at the edges of roadside disasters. Convinced Alice might still be out there, Keisha takes a job as a long haul truck driver and follows a strange, haunting trail from highway diners to abandoned rest stops. The novel blends tender examinations of marriage and grief with pulse pounding mystery and uncanny Americana, keeping the reader emotionally grounded even as the landscape grows more eerie. Warm, fiercely human, and quietly haunted, this is a story about how love and memory can pull us across a continent in search of answers.

~ Included for centering a married queer protagonist whose search for love becomes a map of grief, resilience, and uncanny Americana, blending emotional intimacy with speculative suspense ~