love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira

As a reader that tends to take down a few notes about the books I’m reading in order to remember for reviewing purposes, I WROTE DOWN THREE ENTIRE PAGES OF NOTES, FRONT AND BACK, EVERY SINGLE LINE AND MARGINS. I have never taken more than a page of notes before on even the best books. She pours her heart and soul into these letters and I promise you that I poured my heart and soul into reading them. We have letters to Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, River Phoenix – several different people. The entire book is written by Laurel, in the form of letters to famous dead people – all names that we would potentially know. That is how I had to read this book: in chunks. 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. 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, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her.

She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. 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. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Read Chapters 1-5 FREE Here: Amazon / B&N Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira