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| Original Title: | Love Letters to the Dead |
| ISBN: | 0374346674 (ISBN13: 9780374346676) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Albuquerque, New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2014) |
Ava Dellaira
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.81 | 60932 Users | 7762 Reviews
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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 did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to 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 begin to discover her own path in this stunning debut from Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead.
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| Title | : | Love Letters to the Dead |
| Author | : | Ava Dellaira |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 60932 Users | 7762 ReviewsArticle Of Books Love Letters to the Dead
3.5 STARSOur flushing hearts, trying to climb the stars - how with the wrong wind, we can fall. I dont think Ive ever felt so many contrasting emotions for a book as I did for this one. My first impulse was to rage quit this as early as the second Cobain letter, followed by derisively laughing at Laurels puerile drama. Then I felt some alien tug at my heart over Aunt Amy and her Jesus Man and got teary-eyed over the story behind her parents broken marriage. Reading this book felt a lot likewow. That's such a massive, massive understatement, but I just...wow. Hands down the best book I've read in 2014.
wow. That's such a massive, massive understatement, but I just...wow. Hands down the best book I've read in 2014.
This book is a hard one for me to decide how to rate. There were parts of it I really liked and there were parts of it when I thought my eyes would glaze over and never recover. Laurel is given an assignment to write to a dead person. She begins to do so and never turns in the assignment. Once she starts she keeps going with it and changes to several past celebrities and historical figures. She has moved to a new school to help cope with her sister Mae's death. Hoping that a new school will
the art of losing's not too hard to masterthough it may look like disaster.Love Letters To The Dead is, in sum, about loss, grief and guilt; all welded together into a sharp weapon that keeps stabbing at the heart of Laurel. Once I began this novel, I found striking resemblance with two books: Love, Rosie because of the presentation of the story in the format of letters and All the Bright Places because of an on-silent-mode central character (like Violet Markey) who has lost her sister.
I have no idea how to explain how I feel about this book.... Like it was good... But I hated it? My emotions are confused. Video review to come (possibly)
Dear Kate Chopin,there's something extraordinary about writing letters the dead. I think it's because it's kind of freeing to write something to someone who will never ever read it. You don't feel silly about getting too deep or too poetic or too weird or nonsensical. And it's better than writing a diary, because a diary is basically one talking to oneself, and sometimes we don't want to talk to ourselves, we want to talk to someone else, but we can't because we don't want to sound too deep or
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