the correspondent

3/4 of the way through this book i just started weeping openly and didn't really stop. Probably because my grandpa just died and the main character reminds me SO much of my grandmother who is alone now, in a house in the mid-Atlantic, with all her things and regrets. This book contains everything, and I'm sure I'd take something else away if I had read it at another time in my own life, but I really latched onto - how easy it is to tell the truth to a complete stranger, and how impossible it is to say the one thing to the person we love that could make things right again. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Recommend audiobook.

5/5

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Hopie Hill

“I almost didn’t read this book bc the cover art is giving stationary aisle at Michael’s. But I adored every morsel of this highly literary & epistolary gem. I cried 5x”

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Joanne

“Five million stars? I learned so much about family, aging, friendship and life from Sybil. She is a kindred spirit, I have loved writing and receiving letters and embarked on a letter a day project only a few years ago. Oh, if this book renews the beauty of the written letter! Read this for the love and wit of Sybil, come away with the lessons of aging and forgiveness. I loved it.”

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