Alice Sadie Celine
by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Descriptions
It?s opening night, but Alice?s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter?s Tale is far from glamorous. She doesn?t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn?t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school?really one another?s only friends?but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend?s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine. A professor of women?s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine?s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she?s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend
