To the Birdhouse

The good news is that Alice, the imitable heroine of Cathleen Schine's unforgettable "Alice in Bed, " is very much up and about. The better news is that she is marrying the man only a girl like Alice dreams of: a towering baseball statistician named Peter. The bad news? None at all, unless you shrink from the sounds of battle and the squeaks of strategies as Alice enlists the rest of the Bordy clan in a no-holds-barred struggle to rid her mother of San Scifo, a middle-aged boyfriend of impeccably bad taste, and his unscrupulous ploys to hang on to the lady he insists he adores.