Set in the late 1960s, Go Ask Alice is the story of an unnamed diarist whose journals show her journey through a pill addiction. The novel's tumultuous course follows the nameless girl through a flight from home, a harrowing and mentally scarring stay in an asylum, and a slide into heroin use during which she is brutally raped. Although the diarist makes heroic efforts to throw off her addiction, in the end she dies of an overdose.
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