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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
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altamira16In this book, an older former law clerk named Sybil Van Antwerp communicates with everyone through letters. All the chapters are letters sent, received, or not sent.
This is interesting because the events fall between the letters. For example, Sybil is asked to speak at the funeral of her former attorney, and then people write her to congratulate her on how well her speech went, but we do not know what happened in the speech.
The main character lives in Arnold, Maryland which is a suburb of Annapolis. The Maryland knowledge in this comes from a person who lived there. For example, there are letters to The Baltimore Sun at 300 E. Cromwell St, and that really was the office of the Baltimore Sun.
Someone was having mental health issues, and they went to Shepphard Pratt, the big mental health hospital in the Baltimore area.
She writes to famous people, her friends, her relatives, and her neighbors. A lot of the characters are readers and ask the other characters what they are reading. Some of them are always reading something light. Some of them are always reading something complicated.
Blindness also comes up in this book, and I am not sure if I should have been reading about blindness a few days before eye surgery, but that is how it was.
This is interesting because the events fall between the letters. For example, Sybil is asked to speak at the funeral of her former attorney, and then people write her to congratulate her on how well her speech went, but we do not know what happened in the speech.
The main character lives in Arnold, Maryland which is a suburb of Annapolis. The Maryland knowledge in this comes from a person who lived there. For example, there are letters to The Baltimore Sun at 300 E. Cromwell St, and that really was the office of the Baltimore Sun.
Someone was having mental health issues, and they went to Shepphard Pratt, the big mental health hospital in the Baltimore area.
She writes to famous people, her friends, her relatives, and her neighbors. A lot of the characters are readers and ask the other characters what they are reading. Some of them are always reading something light. Some of them are always reading something complicated.
Blindness also comes up in this book, and I am not sure if I should have been reading about blindness a few days before eye surgery, but that is how it was.
