Still Falling: What We Missed in Alice in Wonderland, and Why the Madness Still Matters - Read on Amazon

Still Falling is not a retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
It is a reconsideration.

For more than a century, Alice’s world has been dismissed as nonsense. A children’s story. A dream. A charming collection of absurdities. But what if the madness was never the point? What if Wonderland was showing us something we still struggle to name?

In this short, reflective book, Amy Sullivan revisits Alice in Wonderland as a map for navigating systems that make no sense but insist they do. Through the lens of modern life, she explores why Alice’s confusion feels so familiar, why authority in Wonderland sounds eerily contemporary, and why curiosity may be the most overlooked form of resilience.

This book is for readers who have ever felt overwhelmed by shifting rules, unspoken expectations, or environments that demand adaptation without clarity. It is for those who have been told they are too sensitive, too literal, or asking too many questions, when the problem may never have been them.

Drawing connections between literature, neurodivergence, emotional logic, and everyday experience, Still Falling offers a compassionate reframing. Confusion is not weakness. Questioning is not defiance. And surviving a mad world does not require becoming mad yourself.

This is a quiet book about noticing. About staying awake. And about why Alice keeps falling, and why we keep returning to her story.