The Last Letter She Never Sent

Mara is thirty-six. She stopped answering her mother’s calls at twenty-two, and she does not cry at the funeral. In the attic of the house she grew up in she finds a cedar box with a note taped to the lid: “For when you’re ready.” Inside are dozens of letters her mother wrote to her and never sent. Each chapter is one letter and what Mara does after she reads it. To the version of you that hates me. To the girl who blamed herself for the scar. To the man you never knew was there. To the night I almost left. One envelope is empty. One letter is half burned. One was mailed and came back. The last one her mother never wrote. A short novel in seventeen letters about a mother and a daughter who stopped talking, with a reader’s guide for book clubs. About 13,500 words. The Prologue and Chapter One are free to read.

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