Sybil Van Antwerp has always used letters to make sense of her place in the world. Most mornings, she sits down to write letters — to her brother, to her children, to her best friend, to former colleagues, and even to famous authors in which she opines on their latest books. And then there are the missives she composes, but never mails, to a mysterious person from her past. At age 73, facing worsening eyesight, Sybil is not seeking novelty or change. But when she receives letters from someone that force her to revisit a painful period in her past, she realizes that she cannot move forward until she finds a way to forgive. As debut novelist Virginia Evans brilliantly maps a web of characters through Sybil’s correspondence, she crafts an appealing family drama and a rich epistolary portrait of delayed self-awareness and hard-won wisdom.
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