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The book I have read is called, //“Go ask Alice.”//

The book is written by an anonymous girl who could be anyone in this world. The main person in the book is called “Alice”, and this book is her diary telling her life story through her time as a hard drug user.

The book starts telling us about Alice that is fifteen years old at that time, her family and their life. She writes down all of her feelings and worries. She tells about her weight loss, her problems in school and her difficulties in relating to her parents. Then in the end of the year Alice and her family moves to another place, and Alice is walking on air as she get's a brand new start. She meets a girl called Beth, but when Beth leaves for a summer camp Alice goes to stay with her grandparents for a while. There she meets Jill, who invites her to a party, where Alice tries drugs for the first time. Alice keep experiments with more and more different drug types, and after a while she loses her virginity while she is on ACID.

A boy she has a crush on, Roger, and his parents showed up in her town unexpectedly to visit her grandfather. Alice writes in her diary that she may be pregnant, because she had unprotected sex, as earlier mentioned. Because of all this problems she got sleeping problems and received some strong pills, called tranquilizers. In the end of the summer her friend Beth returns home, but things are not like it used to be. After a while Alice meet a new girl called Chris. They work and sell drugs to help a boy named Richie, but they discover that Richie is not who they thought he was, so Alice turns Richie into the police. Then Alice and Chris escape to San Francisco. They get into problems and had to move to another city, Berkeley. When Christmas came Alice went home. Then back home she really tries to change her lifestyle and start in school again.

After being clean a while she couldn’t stay away anymore and started using drugs again, without her family’s knowledge. After a while she runs away one more time, this time to Denver, and then to Oregon. Chris is not with her this time; Alice is only with some other drug users. A girl called Doris lets her stay in her apartment, and they run away to California together. In California Alice uses more drugs, and starts prostituting herself. Alice talks with a priest about her runaways, and decides to talk to her parents.

She returns home and starts living a happy life without drugs. She only has one problem, she can not hang out with the kids that use drugs, and the clean kids don’t want to hang out with her. Alice’s grandfather dies suddenly from a stroke, and Alice gets very sad about this. She meets a boy called Joel and they fall in love.

In the end Alice ends up in the State Mental Hospital after someone dosed some peanuts Alice was eating with LSD. After a while she returns home again. Soon the school begins, and Alice writes she doesn’t need a diary anymore, science she now has so many caring people around.

Alice's life was very good in the end, and she seemed happy. But in the very end it suddenly stops. Alice was found dead three weeks later after she wrote in her diary for the last time.

They believe she died of an overdose; she was only one of many that year.