WAITING ON WEDNESDAY ~ LETTERS TO THE DEAD

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's WoW selection is....

 

 

 

Genre: Contemporary YA

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Publication Date: 4/1/14

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because she thought he’d understand since he died young just like her sister, May, did. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people—Janis Joplin, Amy Winhouse, Ameilia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more—although she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about what it’s like going to a new school, meeting new friends, falling in love for the first time, how her family splinters apart after May dies. She even writes about the abuse she suffered—while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May, and to see her as the person she was: lovely and amazing and deeply flawed.

Trained as a poet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ava Dellaira brings a lyrical, haunting beauty to her prose.

 

Why I'm Waiting .... Honestly, I am super excited about this one because Kurt Cobain is in the blurb. Anything that mentions Cobain is going to get my attention. This story sounds completely beautiful and like something I will fall in love with.


So what do you think of my pick? Leave a comment and I'll be sure to come check out your WoW.