- Death, Letters, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings
*Sometimes the best letters go unanswered.* It begins as an assignment for English; write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young, and so did Laurel's sister May - so maybe he'll understand what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people - Janis Jolip, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earheart, Amy Winehouse... It's like she can't stop. She writes about her new high school, her new friends, her first love - and her shattered life. But the ghosts of Laurel's past can't be contained between the lines of a page forever. She must face up to them - before that consume her.
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Spare, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ava Dellaira
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 323
- Publisher
- Square Fish, Hot Key Books, cbt
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466860339
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“Dear Kurt Cobain, Mrs Buster gave us our first assignment in English today, to write a letter to a dead person”
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