Love Letters to the Dead, Ava Dellaira
Love Letters to the Dead, Ava Dellaira
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Love Letters to the Dead

Author: Ava Dellaira

Narrator: Ava Dellaira

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2014

Synopsis

It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person.Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven’t forgiven?It’s not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path.In a voice that’s as lyrical and as true as a favorite song, Ava Dellaira writes about one girl’s journey through life’s challenges with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty.

About Ava Dellaira

Ava Dellaira is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. She believes this book began when she bought her second album ever—Nirvana’s In Utero—which she listened to on repeat while filling the pages of her journal. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California, where she works in the film industry and is writing her second novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on August 25, 2016

4.5 stars Months ago, I had to put Love Letters to the Dead down because it was making me so desperately sad. Almost a full year later, I read the last half of it with a lump in my throat and tears dripping down my face. This is a profoundly moving meditation on grief, written with rare sensitivity......more

Goodreads review by Josu on March 02, 2016

Una historia con la que he conectado por pasajes, con personajes secundarios que realmente no aportan nada y en general, una trama que da tumbos. Cartas de amor a los muertos me ha parecido una novela simple, llena de situaciones clichés y con una manera de ser narrada que creo que a veces era más un......more

Goodreads review by Maditales on February 27, 2023

Dear Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Remember when I had to read your books at school? Yeah so I always thought the message of your stories was really important but some things always disturbed and confused me. This book made me just as confused because I don’t know if it’s something amazing with a great......more

Goodreads review by Evie on August 06, 2016

Reminiscent of Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Love Letters To The Dead is too beautiful, too meaningful, and too heartbreaking to describe with words. An incredible, moving and very important story with a beating heart and bright soul. It's one of those books that everyone ought to read, own, and shar......more

Goodreads review by Maria on April 25, 2019

O Peso das Memórias May e Laurel crescem juntas partilhando o mundo, até àquele dia fatídico que Laurel, se possível, eliminaria do calendário, para que tudo regressasse ao outrora!... Laurel e May, May e Laurel, irmãs e cúmplices, juntas e felizes, duas e uma!... Com o trágico desaparecimento da irmã,......more

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