Young Adult Author Ava Dellaira Inks Deal

By Maryann Yin 

Ava Dellaira (GalleyCat)Ava Dellaira, the author of Love Letters to the Dead, has signed a deal for a book entitled 17 Years with Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers. The story will focus on the relationship between a mother and daughter.

It will feature the perspectives of both these characters. The publication date has been scheduled for Winter 2018.

Dellaira gave this statement to Entertainment Weekly: “I was interested in exploring the invisible inheritances that get passed between generations, which, I believe, is exceptionally relevant at the time when one is seeking to forge one’s own path and identity…I find the mother-daughter relationship to be incredibly rich territory at all stages of life, but I think it comes into play in a uniquely important way at the moment one transitions out of childhood and comes to a new understanding of one’s parents as their own people, with their own pasts, sorrows, joys, beauties, and imperfections.”