![]() ![]() Laurel is a very realistic teenage girl wrestling with things that most teenagers have to deal with in some way or another, and while she makes some decisions I wouldn’t want my students making, she definitely learns from her mistakes. But I have to admit that I’m so glad I didn’t stop. Too much sadness, too much belittling of the religious aunt, too much teen drinking, too much stuff. There were a few times I almost stopped reading. He’s honest and caring and doesn’t try to take advantage of Laurel in her fragile state. She also experiences her first love, and I really appreciated Sky’s character for his role in Laurel’s healing process. As Laurel writes these letters, working through the decomposition of her family, May’s death, and revealing snippets of the circumstances surrounding her death, she begins to heal and come through as herself rather than just a shell of May. Her parents divorced, her sister May died, her mom moved away, she switched schools… and that all happened before the book actually picks up. Through a series of letters written to dead people ranging from Kurt Cobain to Amelia Earhart to Elizabeth Bennet written over the course of a school year, Laurel explores some seriously heavy topics. So obviously a book titled Love Letters to the Dead is going to be a pretty emotional one, but I don’t think I was quite prepared for all there is to find in here. ![]()
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