Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven't forgiven?
It's not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was lovely and amazing and deeply flawed can she truly start to discover her own path.
In a voice that's as lyrical and as true as a favorite song, Ava Dellaira writes about one girl's journey through life's challenges with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty. (less)
A high school girl writes letters to dead artists to deal with the death of her older sister. Laurel is new to high school and doesn't want anyone knowing about her dead sister, May. After a teacher assigns her students to write a letter to a deceased person, Laurel finds the exercise is the only outlet for her to express her feelings about May's death and the role she played in it. She writes to Kurt Cobain and Janic Joplin (among many others), relating her emotional turmoil to theirs. She gets wrapped up in the excitement of having a social life for the first time. She goes to parties, gets drunk, and often finds herself in the crossfire of her friends' secret lesbian relationship. She begins dating her crush, Skye, and tries desperately to be everything he wants, but fails. Skye breaks up with Laurel because he can't deal with her depression and instability, and begins dating another girl. After she tries to party away her problems, she almost gets raped. Skye rescues her and brings her home, but not before she accidentally reveals to half the high school her friends' secret. As the letters continue she begins to reveal how she was repeatedly molested by a guy May trusted to babysit her. She told May about it the night she died. Skye surprises her by admitting he knew May well and fears Laurel is too much like her. Once she acknowledges the guilt she feels for May's death, she is able to be honest with Skye and her friends and make It has a unique and refreshing ability to incorporate and relate the lives of artists to a typical high school girl.
My favorite scene is when Laurel walks in on her two best friends kissing for the first time. It was a scenario many can relate to: getting drunk off stolen liquor and frolicking in the backyard of your friend's parents house. They were on the trampoline and when her friends noticed her, she panicked and tried to run but they stopped her and demanded she partake because it was only fair.
Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven't forgiven?It's not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was lovely and amazing and deeply flawed can she truly start to discover her own path.In a voice that's as lyrical and as true as a favorite song, Ava Dellaira writes about one girl's journey through life's challenges with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty. (less) A high school girl writes letters to dead artists to deal with the death of her older sister. Laurel is new to high school and doesn't want anyone knowing about her dead sister, May. After a teacher assigns her students to write a letter to a deceased person, Laurel finds the exercise is the only outlet for her to express her feelings about May's death and the role she played in it. She writes to Kurt Cobain and Janic Joplin (among many others), relating her emotional turmoil to theirs. She gets wrapped up in the excitement of having a social life for the first time. She goes to parties, gets drunk, and often finds herself in the crossfire of her friends' secret lesbian relationship. She begins dating her crush, Skye, and tries desperately to be everything he wants, but fails. Skye breaks up with Laurel because he can't deal with her depression and instability, and begins dating another girl. After she tries to party away her problems, she almost gets raped. Skye rescues her and brings her home, but not before she accidentally reveals to half the high school her friends' secret. As the letters continue she begins to reveal how she was repeatedly molested by a guy May trusted to babysit her. She told May about it the night she died. Skye surprises her by admitting he knew May well and fears Laurel is too much like her. Once she acknowledges the guilt she feels for May's death, she is able to be honest with Skye and her friends and make It has a unique and refreshing ability to incorporate and relate the lives of artists to a typical high school girl. My favorite scene is when Laurel walks in on her two best friends kissing for the first time. It was a scenario many can relate to: getting drunk off stolen liquor and frolicking in the backyard of your friend's parents house. They were on the trampoline and when her friends noticed her, she panicked and tried to run but they stopped her and demanded she partake because it was only fair.
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