Unmask Alice
by Rick Emerson · first published 2022
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Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson was a very enjoyable read. It's about Beatrice Sparks and her unique genre of fake teen diaries, of which Go Ask Alice was the most famous. It chronicles her whole-cloth invention of…
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