The Correspondent: A Novel
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett
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This book reminded me about my childhood love of giving and receiving letters the way that putting pen to paper helped us to reflect, share, question and express our feeling to one another. I reserve my 10s for those rare books that change me and the way I live my life. Tonight, I will write someone I love a letter, and I plan to make this a new practice. So grateful to Virginia Evans for reminding me about the beauty of written correspondence.
The Correspondent is a delightful and touching epistolary novel with Sybil at its heart—charming, complicated, cranky, and quirky (she reminded me so much of Veronica from How the Penguins Saved Veronica). Her bluntness made me laugh out loud more than once. I especially loved the authors she chose to write to—Patchett, Didion, McMurtry, and Ishiguro. I’d never read a book told entirely in letters before, but I really enjoyed this different kind of read.
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