Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years
unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech
is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart
wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous
pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more
about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.
When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined
with the mysterious pilot and Grace begins to write her own letters to
Amelia. While navigating her third trimester, amidst new conspiracy
theories about Amelia's disappearance, the search for her remains, and
the impending publication of her private letters, Grace goes on a
pilgrimage of her own.
Letters to Amelia is a stunning, contemporary epistolary novel from
the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. It
underscores the power of reading and writing letters for both connection
and self-discovery, and celebrates the unwritten, undocumented parts of
our lives.
Above all, Letters to Amelia is a story of the essential need for
connection--and our universal ability to find hope in the face of fear.
Praise for Letters to Amelia:
"Brimming over with Lindsay Zier-Vogel's obvious love for the story of
Amelia Earhart, Letters to Amelia is a wonderful novel about flight
and passion, about love-letters and reaching out; a novel about how we
never know quite what's coming next, but still keep launching ourselves
into the blue tomorrow."--Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
"A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood.
Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal, and
a celebration of that big, messy, wonderful journey of coming into one's
own. Charming and beautifully rendered, this is a big-hearted hopeful
novel, full of life and love." --Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball
Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me
"When we think of Amelia Earhart, we think enigmatic adventurer and
feminist pioneer--and, of course, of her mysterious disappearance. But
in Letters to Amelia, we meet a different Amelia Earhart, as seen
through the eyes of Grace, the novel's protagonist, a young library tech
tasked with reading her letters: an Amelia who is funny, charming,
joyful, sad, and most of all, full of life. Zier-Vogel writes with
uncanny empathy about heartbreak, friendship, motherhood, and the common
threads that connect women across time, geography, and even between
earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut that
will make you feel like you are flying, and Zier-Vogel is a writer whose
career is about to soar." --Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of
Me
"Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take
heart - it is gentle and joyous, full of tenderness, alive and sturdy
with hope." --Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter
Vault
