{"id":38659,"date":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/alice-sadie-celine-a-novel-by-blakley-cartwright-sarah\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:54:53","slug":"alice-sadie-celine-a-novel-by-blakley-cartwright-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/alice-sadie-celine-a-novel-by-blakley-cartwright-sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Sadie Celine: A Novel by Blakley-Cartwright Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman\u2019s affair with her daughter\u2019s best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.It\u2019s opening night, but Alice\u2019s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter\u2019s Tale is far from glamorous. She doesn\u2019t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn\u2019t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming.Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school\u2014really one another\u2019s only friends\u2014but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend\u2019s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.A professor of women\u2019s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine\u2019s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she\u2019s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. <\/p>\n

So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice\u2019s play, she relents, if only to escape writer\u2019s block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice\u2019s performance and realizes that her daughter\u2019s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.Set over the course of decades\u2014from Alice and Sadie\u2019s early friendship days and Celine\u2019s decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood\u2014Alice and Celine\u2019s affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright\u2019s debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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