Drawing from early childhood imaginings and profound personal loss, this author's work delves into the intricate space between feeling and language, exploring where words fall short. Her formative years, filled with imaginative play and later refined through formal poetry studies, inform her compelling narratives. An early career experience assisting with a film adaptation sparked a turn toward novel writing, further developing her distinctive voice and storytelling approach. She crafts resonant tales that capture the complexities of human experience.
Multi-perspective storytelling in this book explores the complexity of human experiences, presenting two sides of a single night. It delves into the nuances of conflicting truths, challenging readers to confront the ambiguity of morality and the depth of empathy. Through its rich narratives, it emphasizes that situations are often not simply right or wrong, inviting a deeper reflection on the nature of truth and understanding.
Everyone is searching for something... A novel from the best-selling author of the international hit Love Letters To the Dead.
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.