Vincent and Alice and Alice

From the visionary author of Light Boxes, a mind-bending office comedy, and a
touching modern love story set against the backdrop of an ever-increasingly
disorienting America.

Being home all the time is depressing, so I tell my boss "I'm ready for anything" in the
strongest conference call voice in the world while driving my hand into a family-sized bag of
tortilla chips. Without a future, no Alice, I'm ready for an adventure.

Meet Vincent. After his divorce from Alice he's lost his way, and is mindlessly working for
the State, counting down the days till retirement. When his boss tells him to participate in a
program that promises not only to increase productivity, but show him his "ideal life" he
thinks: what's the harm? Others have seen new marked improvements in productivity and
personal happiness. Willing to try anything to move away from the heartbreak of Alice,
Vincent reluctantly complies.
But what the program shows him, is that his ideal life is simply Alice. She's back. Is she real?
A clone? A hologram? Despite the lingering questions, Vincent eases back into love and
begins to live his life again with Alice, that is, until the real Alice returns.
A novel about work, love, and how to live in the present moment, Vincent and Alice and
Alice flings us through a shockingly funny and tender-hearted world just a few degrees
different from our own, one that introduces us to a wild cast of characters, including the
enigmatic CEO of PER, Dorian Blood, a mysterious under-cover cop, and the acid-tongued
Elderly, a man living in his car who may be the only one who understands how to live in
reality.