Alice Walks is the first novel by Michael Aronovitz. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest form of weird literature, but modern ghosts must be active in ways that the genteel ghosts of the past could not bring themselves to be. Aronovitz brings the same sensibilities found in his previous work—which fused horror and pathos in an inextricable union—to this novel. The story is narrated in the voice of a teenager and explores the emotions of a boy struggling to understand why his parents’ marriage is unraveling, a mother attempting to hold her family together, and a father whose past derelictions have cast a shadow over the future of his household. Even without the element of supernatural terror, the novel serves as a document of a family’s inexorable descent into heartbreak and tragedy.

This edition features a full-color wraparound dust jacket and four black-and-white interior illustrations by artist Samuel Araya.