⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read Go Ask Alice when I was in my early teens and it scared the living daylights out of me. When I read Unmask Aliceand learned that it was all a hoax, I was angry. Rick Emerson pulls back the curtain on how Go Ask Alice exploded in 1971, reshaping the young adult genre with its brutal depiction of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. Marketed as the real diary of a middle-class addict, the book terrified parents, hardened LSD’s reputation, and helped fuel the momentum of the War on Drugs. Here’s the kicker: it was all the invention of author Beatrice Sparks, a serial con artist who turned tragedy into profit. Emerson paints […]