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''Love Letters to the Dead'' (2014) is the first novel by American author Ava Dellaira, published in 2014. This is a young adult novel told through a series of letters written to dead people by a 15-year-old girl named Laurel who is grieving the recent mysterious death of her sister May. The novel is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ==Plot== Laurel has just started class at a new high school. She is a quiet student who still dresses like she's in middle school. Mrs. Buster, her English teacher, gives the class an assignment to write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain and begins an ongoing relationship with the other dead people. "Confiding in dead geniuses helps a teen process her grief and rage."〔LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD Kirkus Reviews (Print), March 1, 2014, Saturday, FICTION,〕 Laurel lives with her father and every other week with her Aunt Amy, her mother's older sister. Laurel's mother, she reveals, has divorced her father in order to pursue a dream of acting and moves to California after Laurel's sister dies. At 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. With each letter, Laurel opens up a little more about the circumstances of her family life, her relationship with her older sister May and what happened the night May died. Finding other dead people to write to, Laurel explores how they died, what their childhoods were like and connects with each person's story in different ways. On the one year anniversary of May's death, Laurel has reached the point in her letters to dead people and with her friends, that she tells the whole story of how May died. On that evening, she and May went to the theater, as they often did. May met her older boyfriend Paul, leaving Laurel with Paul's friend Billie who took advantage of their times together to molest her. On this evening Billie sexually abused Laurel. On the way home from the theater May was agitated and wanted to stop at a bridge over a river where she and Laurel had played Pooh Sticks. There is friction between the sisters and Laurel tells May that Billie molests and abuses her. May goes out on the bridge railing, falls into the river and drowns. Laurel has struggled to understand if it was an accident or suicide. Subplots include the rocky love story of Natalie who loves Hannah and is not afraid of acknowledging her sexual preference, 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. 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. At the end of the novel, Laurel writes her first letter to May, and this becomes her final letter to a dead person. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love Letters to the Dead (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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