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2000s: Twins share a special bond. If your twin was dead, you’d know right?
Dead Letters
What you need to know before your trail
Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead.
Even in a family of alcoholics, Zelda Antipova was the wild one, but it seems as if even she has outdone herself this time. Her death has left a mysterious trail that Ava must follow in order to uncover the truth about her family. But once that hornet’s nest is disturbed….
Travel Guide
Finger Lakes – Wine country?
It’s true that the Finger Lakes region of New York is well known for its wines -particularly for the world renowned Rieslings. This is a visit you can taste:
When the plane comes into land at Ithaca airport “ I can see all the Finger Lakes in a row, a glistening, outstretched claw catching at the late -afternoon sun.”
She thinks about her journey home as being a result of everything she’s done so far ‘Forever returning to Ithaca” It’s a quiet place and far removed compared to the big city of NYC – here a car gets a ticket where as in the city that never sleeps, the car would have been towed and the drive in custody.
Wine country
“Their grapes win awards; people drive across the whole Finger Lakes region to taste their wines”
With the detail of grapes, aromas, types of wine and the tasting of them, you’ll be a wine connoisseur by the end!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Dead Letters
Author/Guide: Caite Dolan-Leach Destination: Ithaca, Finger Lakes Region Departure Time: 2000s
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