epistolary fiction

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epistolary fiction

Swimming lessons

2017
A wife writes letters to her husband about the truth of her marriage and hides them in the thousands of book she has collected over the years, but when she disappears off a beach in Dorset, England, clues to what really happened are found in her writings.
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus

2013
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.

The color purple

a novel
1992
Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

Greetings from the graveyard

2014
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--Provided by publisher.

Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer

2016
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.

We are still tornadoes

2016
Two childhood friends embark on a letter writing exchange when one of them goes off to college andan unexpected crush develops between the two of them.

Donorboy

2004
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

We need to talk about Kevin

a novel
2004
Eva Khatchadourian has been living a life plagued by guilt and denial since her son opened fire and killed seven of his classmates two years earlier, and as she tries to come to terms with her son's actions, she examines the parenting choices she made when raising him and wonders where she went wrong.

The dragonsitter takes off

2016
Relates the adventures of Edward Smith-Pickle and his family during the time they are left watching Eddie's Uncle Morton's pet dragon while he is on vacation, told entirely in emails. When the dragon disappears only to be found in the linen closet, they discover that the dragon has been keeping a big secret.

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