Love Letters to the Dead Contributor(s): Dellaira, Ava (Author) |
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ISBN: 1511325585 ISBN-13: 9781511325585 Publisher: Brilliance Audio
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: MP3 CD - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2015 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Siblings - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 12-14 |
Grade Level: 7-9 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" L (0.15 lbs) |
Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Topical - Family |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dellaira, Ava: - 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. |
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