Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this mature, coming-of-age, epistolary novel follows the point of view of its main antagonist Laurel. She must face up to them – before they consume her. She writes about her new high school, her new friends, her first love – and her shattered life.īut the ghosts of Laurel’s past can’t be contained between the lines of a page forever. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people – Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Pheonix, Amelia Earhart, Amy Winehouse…It’s like she can’t stop. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain – he died young, and so did Laurel’s sister May – so maybe he’ll understand what Laurel is going through. It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person. Sometimes the best letters go unanswered. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and also graduated from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. About The AuthorĪva Dellaria was born in California and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This YA novel is told through a series of letters written to dead people by a 15-year-old girl named Laurel who is grieving the recent mysterious death of her sister May. Love Letters to the Dead is the first novel by American author Ava Dellaria, published in 2014.
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