A tight, terse and propulsive read, Eddy Arias’ debut novella Alicia reads as a contemporary cosmopolitan fable that will fire up your book club with questions of reality, morality, identity, and intrigue. The style and tone of Hemingway and Chandler, with perhaps just a soupçon of Borges, Alicia keeps you guessing and thinking and questioning our place and membership in society and our responsibilities to others, if at all. Philosophical and fun, will you peek through the looking-glass?