The Newly Tattooed's Guide to Aftercare
I’m shaking my head at the little girl who thought she could control the story. She doesn’t understand that you can’t control the story, the story controls you.
At twenty, Liza still sleeps with the lights on. In this alcohol fueled narrative, filled with tattoos, family lore and short biographies, Dube shares her raw and graphic coming of age tale. This is a story about ink, on the page and on skin. The Newly Tattooed’s Guide to Aftercare is the love story you never saw coming and only now realize you need.
Aliza Dube was raised in Deep River, CT. She graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington in 2018 with a BFA in Creative Writing and a BS in Elementary Education. Shortly after this book ends, Aliza met her husband. They now live in Eastern Kansas with their black cat and their infant son. This is Aliza’s first book.