The Correspondent

All her life, Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place within it. Most mornings, around half past ten, she sits down to write—to her brother, her best friend, the university president who refuses to let her audit the class she longs to take; to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry with her unfiltered thoughts on their latest books; and to one person she writes to often, yet never sends a letter.

Sybil expects her life to continue as it always has. She has been a daughter, a mother, a grandmother, a wife and a divorcée; a distinguished lawyer who has lived a full and textured life. But when letters from someone in her past resurface, forcing her to confront one of its most painful chapters, Sybil realizes that the unsent letter she has been writing for years must finally be read. Until she can find it in her heart to offer forgiveness, she cannot move forward.