Love Letters to the Dead

By: Ava Dellaira

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

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.

©2014 Ava Dellaira. Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved. “One Art” and excerpt from “The Armadillo” from The Complete Poems 1927– 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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I don't think I have ever read (listened) to a book that made me "feel" like I did... I recommend whole heartedly!

Good teller, but confusing

I love the narrator, but you need to pay alot of attention to under stand it, its confusing. But still love it

A wonderful Read, no matter what age

Although I am a grown man, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It brought back memories once so far removed. I will definitely listen again, to stir my emotions and memories. I highly recommend for any age. The narration was an additional pleasure.

A Fantastic Book.

The most amazing story weaved with beautiful language and the poetry of life and loss.

A healing journey book.

Such good advice for any kind of trauma, really. I laughed and cried and will listen again to this book. I loved it.