
Love Letters of the Angels of Death
Jennifer Quist
August 2013
A breathtaking literary debut, Love Letters of the Angels of Death begins as a young couple discover the remains of his mother in her mobile home. The rest of the family fall back, leaving them to reckon with the messy, unexpected death. By the time the burial is over, they understand this will always be their role: to liaise with death on behalf of people they love. They are living angels of death.
In spare, heart-stopping prose, the transient joys, fears, hopes and heartbreaks of love, marriage, and parenthood are revealed through the lens of the eternal, unfolding within the course of natural life.
Jennifer Quist is a novelist, poet, and columnist living in Edmonton, Alberta. Nominated for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Howard O’Hagan Award for her short fiction “Fish Story,” she has had her work published in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Maclean’s, and Today’s Parent, and has written and voiced introspective personal essays for the CBC Radio One programs Definitely Not the Opera and Tapestry.
Her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death, was published in 2013 by Linda Leith Publishing and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. LLP published her second novel, Sistering, in Fall 2015, and her third, The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner is forthcoming in Spring 2018.
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