“Alice Bliss,” by Laura Harrington (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, $25.95) Get the tissues out to tackle “Alice Bliss,” by talented newcomer Laura Harrington. Alice is a girl grappling with the twin sorrows of adolescence and the absence of her father, Matt Bliss, in this emerging genre of novels chronicling the most hotly debated U.S. war of modern history: Iraq. In allowing readers to befriend Matt, understand his unique value as a person and see what he means to his daughter, it’s painfully simple to realize how essential every soldier’s life is to his or her family.
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