epistolary fiction

Laura's daughter Elizabeth runs away after a terrible argument, and as she waits for Elizabeth's return, Laura begins to write a letter sharing the secrets of her troubled adolescence and the meaning of the enigmatic tattoo on her right hip.

Sixty-two-year-old Tig Warriner, a former activist, gains insight into the lives and feelings of her husband, daughters, and grandchildren through the letters she receives from them while she is on a year-long environmental walk across America.

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram(a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet), "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.

A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Nazi Germany.

Asmahan's letters, written from war-torn Beirut, tell the stories of one woman's life and loves, her sense of being held hostage in her own country, and her attempts to make sense of life in the chaos of civil war.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

Starting before she is even born, Mike writes letters to his baby sister, Erica, telling her what it is like to be her older brother.

The language-loving inhabitants of a South Carolina island interpret the falling of the letter "Z" from a beloved monument as a divine warning not to use the letter any longer. But catastrophe is imminent when the other letters in the monument--which contains the entire alphabet--begin falling one by one.

The many mishaps of Bettina, who is attending summer camp, and her Aunt Tallulah, who is living at the South Pole, are described in the letters they exchange.

Twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mail letters in an attempt to end her widowed father's long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C., zookeeper.