Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira is a coming of age story filled with the complicated realities of young adulthood, illustrated with prolific ideas and beautiful words.
The main character, Laurel, is a freshman in high school and is coping with the death of her older sister, May. Ironically enough, Laurel's first English assignment is to write a letter to someone who died, and she ends up taking the project into her own hands and writing a whole book of them, which is how we learn her truths she's otherwise hesitant to say out loud.
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