Love Letters: Experiments in New Romanticism

By J.K. Franko

A journey across time, place, and genre, exploring how writers, readers, lovers, and strangers attempt--and often fail--to reach one another.

In this formally inventive novel, J.K. Franko takes readers from 13th-century France to 1960s Miami, contemporary Texas, and Spain's Camino de Santiago. Along the way, literature, language, and storytelling are serious business. A book club turns deadly; a father's love story becomes a lesson in murder; two families fractured by political violence are brought together by an improbable romance.

At once intellectually playful and emotionally serious, Love Letters uses hybrid literary form to stage a multilayered dialogue between writers, readers, critics, and fictional characters--gradually dissolving the boundaries separating them and asking: is literature merely letters on a page, or an attempt by one consciousness to reach another across isolation and time?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646054679
• ISBN13: 9781646054671
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Length: 125 Pages