love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira

But instead, May would leave Laurel at the movies with her boyfriend’s friend and May would go off somewhere with her much older boyfriend, 24 years old. May,17 years old, started taking Laurel,14 years old, to the movies… at least that what she told their parents. Toward the end of the book, Laurel finally confesses what happened the night May died. He was expelled from the high school he and May attended for beating up a guy (who was May’s boyfriend) that he thought had taken advantage of her. Later we find out that he knew May and also had a small crush on her. She views May as having been perfect.Īfter making eye contact several different times, Laurel finally talks to Sky, a junior, and they start hanging out and eventually start dating. Laurel often goes into May’s room and wears May’s clothes and tries to be as like May as she can - she lives life by a “What would May do” mentality. We follow Laurel’s life through what she tells the people in her letters, as a whole, the book is about Laurel trying to deal with what happened to her sister. When Laurel starts school, she becomes friends with Natalie and Hannah, also freshmen, and Kristen and Tristan, seniors. Her mom has runaway to California in her inability to handle her daughter’s death.

She moves back and forth between staying at he Aunt’s house and living with her dad. To avoid going to the same high school her sister attended, Laurel moves in with her Aunt Amy and attends school in her district instead. Laurel’s sister, May, died over the summer. Cummings, River Phoenix, and Heath Ledger. Her most frequent recipients are Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Amy Whinehouse, Amelia Earhart, E.E. Summary: Laurel, a high school freshman, writes letters to the dead.

Love letters to the dead chapters 1 5 ava dellaira