The Correspondent

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Most mornings, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write. A retired lawyer, a mother and grandmother, divorced and fiercely her own person, she conducts her life through letters: to her brother, to her closest friend, to authors whose books move her, and to one person she writes to again and again but never sends. Sybil expects her days to go on as they always have. Then letters arrive from someone in her past, pulling her back to the most painful chapter of her life and forcing the reckoning she's long avoided: the unsent letter must finally be read, and she cannot move forward until she finds a way to forgive. Told entirely in correspondence, Virginia Evans's debut is a quietly dazzling portrait of a singular woman, prickly, brilliant, unforgettable, and of how change can arrive just when it seems impossible. A #1 New York Times bestseller now in development as a film starring Jane Fonda, it's tender, funny, and deeply human. A note for our shelves: Evans makes her home right here in Winston-Salem. Available now at Spindle & Spine Bookstore. Show more