I’m wondering if anyone here can think of epistolary novels with very long letters or journal entries, rather than lots of shorter ones. Multiple perspectives would be good- I’m not really looking for Notes From the Underground, Diary of a Superfluous Man kind of thing. I know this is kind of vague but if you think of anything please let me know, thanks!
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[House](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/s/ZJiUJTLEMY) Of Leaves, if you don’t mind ergodic literature
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
There’s a book that’s made entirely of letters that a mom writes to her adult child (son?). It’s connected to another book. The mom is in some sort of facility.
I remember staying up to read it because I was so invested, but I have no idea what it was anymore 😭
Edit: It was The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z Danielewski! “Pelafina writes these letters to Johnny from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a mental institution where she has been residing for a number of years. While a number of these letters appear in House of Leaves, The Whalestoe Letters introduces a number of new letters which serve to more fully develop Pelafina’s character as well as her relationship with Johnny.”
Lady Susan by Jane Austen is an epistolary novel published after her death.