Tristan, a high school senior Natalie met in art class who befriends the three freshman girls and introduces them to his girlfriend Kristen.Kasey, a guy Hannah works with at Japanese Kitchen and whom she "messes around with.".Hannah lives with her grandmother and grandfather, and her abusive older brother. Hannah, a popular red haired friend of Natalie's who is conflicted about her sexuality.Natalie, friend from her English class who has a crush on Hannah.Aunt Amy, Laurel's mother's sister, a waitress who "found God".Her mother was an alcoholic and father died of cancer. Laurel's mother, an aspiring actress who married young when she realized she was pregnant with May and later leaves the marriage to pursue her own dreams.Laurel's father, a hardworking construction worker grieving the loss of his marriage and his eldest daughter.May, Laurel's older sister who recently died.Laurel, the narrator of the novel, Laurel is a 15 year old freshman at a new school whose parents recently divorced and whose sister recently died.There is also the relationship/love stories of Laurel and Sky, Laurel's mother and father, Tristan and Kristan, Laurel and May, May and her progressively older and shadier boyfriends, and Aunt Amy and "the Jesus man" (a very religious seeming man). Subplots include the rocky love story of Natalie who loves Hannah and is not afraid of acknowledging her sexual orientation, and Hannah's conflict in admitting she has an attraction to Natalie dating heavily and experimenting sexually with boys in attempt to cover her desire to be with Natalie. "Confiding in dead geniuses helps a teen process her grief and rage." Īt the new school, Laurel makes friends and continues to write letters to dead people documenting the changes in her life as well as sharing her confusion and grief over the loss of her older sister. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain and begins an ongoing relationship with the other dead people. Buster, her English teacher, gives the class an assignment to write a letter to a dead person. She is a quiet student who still dresses like she's in middle school. Laurel has just started class at a new high school.
The novel is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a teen novel told through a series of letters written by a girl named Laurel who is grieving the recent mysterious death of her sister May. Love Letters to the Dead (2014) is the first novel by American author Ava Dellaira, published in 2014. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), New York
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