When You Read This by Mary Adkins
Iris Massey, having been given a terminal diagnosis, blogs her meditations on life and existence, on everything she's leaving behind.
After her death her sister and her close friend kindle a relationship. An unusual epistolary novel, 'When You Read This' uses diagrams, e-mails, texts, and ad-copy to tell a story of grieving and acceptance with humor and insight.
I've always been a sucker for novels with an unusual structure, pulled from various bits of media and its especially a pleasure to find one that succeeds in developing its characters within that format. 'When You Read This' is a light and engaging novel about serious subjects.
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