After failing at her job and drowning in marital apathy, Mei decides to devote herself to writing, installed in the forest cottage of her childhood, where she will furiously face the gray areas of her past, her inconvenient present and her uncertain future. This is the chronicle of a rebellion, the story of her unapologetic aloneness, told in an agonizing 185-day countdown. But --what is aloneness? A measurable reality, or a state of mind? A blessing or a curse? Maybe it is all that at once. One thing is certain: no one comes out of aloneness unscathed. Written in Gurt's characteristic vivid, visual prose, Alone is also her long-awaited debut in novel form. A story of a psychological enigma, starring a woman who is confronting everything that surrounds her. A personal, modern and rural novel, full of raw emotional power, that talks about the price of aloneness and freedom.