The Letters

Gr 9 Up-At 25, Chiaki Hoshino returns to the house that she lived in as a small child for the funeral of the landlady and remembers how the already elderly Mrs. Yanagi had helped her come to terms with her father's death. The scary old woman claimed to be a mail carrier who would take letters written to those who had died with her when she passed away. Until then, she would keep them safe in a drawer. Chiaki recalls how she came to discover a "world where words communicated," and wrote letter after letter...