First Chapter, First Paragraph & Teaser Tuesday: Letters to the Dead, a novel by Ava Dellaira

First Chapter, First Paragraph, is a meme hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea.  Anyone can play — just copy the first paragraph of the first chapter (or prologue) and include a picture of the book cover. Leave your link at Bibliophile by the Sea.  Here’s the opening from Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira:

Dear Kurt Cobain,

Mrs. Buster gave us our first assignment in English today, to write a letter to a dead person.  As if the letter could reach you in heaven, or at the post office for ghosts.  She probably meant for us to write to someone like a former president or something, but I need someone to talk to. I couldn’t talk to a president. I can talk to you.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!  So, from the same novel:

(Laurel writing to Elizabeth Bishop after reading her poem in class)  I raised my hand before I could even think about it.  “I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s why at the end, it’s hard for her to write even. She can hardly remember how.  Because she barely knows what she is anymore.”

Would you keep reading?  This is a most unusual book.  Have you read it?  Leave a comment and a link to your own FCFP & TT.

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