Timed for release during hispanic heritage month, Eddy Arias releases debut novella Alicia

Timed for release during Hispanic Heritage Month, the novella is available now for pre-order on Amazon and releasing September 30. Alicia elevates Latin American voices and experiences through a morally complex story set on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Claire and Andrew Cooper have everything: wealth, status, and a pristine apartment curated down to the scent. The only thing missing is a child. When IVF fails, Claire proposes an illegal solution: hire their housekeeper, Alicia, as a surrogate.

As the pregnancy progresses, Claire tightens her grip, Andrew begins to drift, and Alicia, seemingly compliant, starts to shift in unexpected ways. Then, without warning, she is gone, setting off a search that will expose more than one kind of loss. With echoes of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland reimagined through the lens of illegal immigration and underground surrogacy, Alicia is an unforgettable story about borders — of the body, the law, and the self — and what happens when they’re crossed.

'The story was born from a single image: the search for a missing woman, where the true purpose was the child she carried inside her rather than the woman herself'.  Arias writes in his author’s note. “From that seed, the rest grew: the struggle of losing control and learning to live without it; the reality of undocumented immigration; and the desire to reimagine Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a darker adult world. I kept wondering: what if Wonderland wasn’t fantasy, but today’s New York City? What if the story were told from the Queen of Hearts’ point of view?'

With slow-burning suspense and cinematic intensity, Alicia is a character-driven psychological drama about the choices that shape who we become, meant to be read in a single sitting and felt long after

About the Author
Eddy Arias is a writer, filmmaker, and media executive. He wrote, produced, and directed Ellipsis, distributed by 20th Century Fox, and White & Black, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He has held senior leadership roles at Paramount and Sony Pictures, and teaches media negotiation at the University of Miami. A graduate of NYU, he lives in Miami with his wife and two children. Alicia is his literary debut.

Media Inquiries, Blurbs, and Adaptation Requests Welcome
Arias invites early readers, critics, and producers to support the story through reviews, blurbs, interviews, or interest in screen adaptation.

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