Zier - Vogel Lindsay - Letters To Amelia - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache the 30 year - old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together. When Grace discovers she is pregnant her life becomes more intertwined with the mysterious pilot and Grace begins to write her own letters to Amelia. While navigating her third trimester amidst new conspiracy theories about Amelia's disappearance the search for her remains and the impending publication of her private letters Grace goes on a pilgrimage of her own. Letters to Amelia is a stunning contemporary epistolary novel from the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. It underscores the power of reading and writing letters for both connection and self - discovery and celebrates the unwritten undocumented parts of our lives. Above all Letters to Amelia is a story of the essential need for connection and our universal ability to find hope in the face of fear. Praise for Letters to Amelia:" Brimming over with Lindsay Zier - Vogel's obvious love for the story of Amelia Earhart Letters to Amelia is a wonderful novel about flight and passion about love - letters and reaching out; a novel about how we never know quite what's coming next but still keep launching ourselves into the blue tomorrow." Jon Mc Gregor author of Reservoir 13" A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood. Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal and a celebration of that big messy wonderful journey of coming into one's own. Charming and beautifully rendered this is a big - hearted hopeful novel full of life and love." Stacey May Fowles author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me" When we think of Amelia Earhart we think enigmatic adventurer and feminist pioneer and of course of her mysterious disappearance. But in Letters to Amelia we meet a different Amelia Earhart as seen through the eyes of Grace the novel's protagonist a young library tech tasked with reading her letters: an Amelia who is funny charming joyful sad and most of all full of life. Zier - Vogel writes with uncanny empathy about heartbreak friendship motherhood and the common threads that connect women across time geography and even between earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous big - hearted debut that will make you feel like you are flying and Zier - Vogel is a writer whose career is about to soar." Amy Jones author of Every Little Piece of Me" Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take heart it is gentle and joyous full of tenderness alive and sturdy with hope." Anne Michaels author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault
Title: Letters To Amelia
Author(s): Zier - Vogel Lindsay
Publisher: Book* Hug
Barcode: 9781771666985
Pages: 282 Pages
Publication Date: 9/28/2021
Category: Fiction: Special Features