Alice is obviously fragile, struggling with intense anxiety and loneliness. When Lucy calls up from the street for Alice to let her in, we’re not sure what sort of reunion to expect. In the aftermath, Alice quickly married a man she barely knew, and he whisked her off to Tangier.Ī year later, in 1956, Lucy surprises Alice by arriving unannounced at the bohemian apartment Alice shares with her new husband, John. They were inseparable college roommates, but a mysterious, terrible accident tore them apart in their final school year. Lucy loves Alice’s tentative smile, and Alice envies Lucy’s striking beauty. In Christine Mangan’s debut novel, Tangerine, Lucy and Alice admire one another. After all, admiring someone often suggests that you wish you had at least some of their attributes, like a friend’s beauty or good humor. Love, in its many forms, often blurs the distinction between adoring someone and wanting to possess them. Marriages aren’t the only partnerships that aspire to have and to hold.
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