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Letters I Never Sent: A Novel in Found Letters
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
There is a drawer in the back of a dead letter office that a postal worker was never supposed to keep. Inside it: dozens of letters written and never sent - to lost loves, absent parents, forgiven friends, and versions of ourselves we never became.
For decades, the letters pass from hand to hand - a niece clearing out a house, a stranger at an estate sale, a bookseller sorting donations, an archivist who can't bring herself to throw them away. Each person who finds them reads a little further into a stranger's unspoken grief, joy, regret, and hope.
When Naomi Ashworth finally sits down with the whole collection - including a letter her own mother wrote and never sent to her - she realizes she has been waiting for someone else's words to give her the courage to finally write her own.
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