Anonymous: Go ask Alice

Go ask Alice, the diary of anonymous writer published in 1971, has developed to be a classic in the field of young adult literature. Theres over 5 million copies sold of it worldwide and its anti-drug message and cautionary tale is as relevant as it has ever been. The diary reveals the story of a teenager who gets introduced to the world of drugs while she battles with normal pains of growing up such as search of identity, search of sexuality, search of independence and the search for a place in the high school social structure. Add to those drugs and as a consequence she faces the difficulties of addiction, bad company, and sees what kind of a dark hole lies beneath the glamorous and pretty surface of the world of drugs along with facing the problems she already had. What does the world beneath look like and what does it do to ones character? Most importantly, how do you recover? Can you recover at all? 

“I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.”