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See more ideas about love letters, book quotes and quotes from novels. Book depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. Love letters to the dead authorava dellaira countryunited states languageenglish genreyoung adult novel epistolary novel realistic fiction publishedfarrar, straus and giroux, new york hardcover march 2014. This is a profoundly moving meditation on grief, written with rare sensitivity and the kind of prose that nearly stops your heart with moments of quiet, anguished beauty. Love letters to the dead haracters in the book that laurel writes her letters to. The letters are at times both cryptic and gripping, as laurel shares with us her thoughts and emotions. For this book, theyre letters, grief, first love, and coming of age, and i think that they were all written very realistically. With beautiful observations of where life can take us, from grieving to celebrating, disappointment to wonder, love letters to the dead is a love letter to living.
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