A writer of proletarian short stories, Alice befriends Carlosand tells himof the difficult childhood she endured growing up poor in a small farming town with a gambling-addicted father. Eventually, she moved to Hollywood and had an affair with a wealthy man until he left her. Alice becomes Carlos’s close friend and a kind of surrogate mother who brings him food and books. She ultimately moves to New York but continues to send Carlos books through the mail.
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Alice Odell Character Timeline in America Is in the Heart
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Chapter 31
...Doyle, visits Carlos and gives him food. Around this same time, a Hollywood writer named Alice Odell sees Carlos’s poems and writes him to arrange a meeting.
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When Alice and Carlos meet at the public library, they find they have much in common. She...
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Chapter 32
Shortly after Alice moves to New York, her sister, Eileen, begins visiting Carlos nearly every day for three...
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