Il Club delle lettere segrete, The Club of Secret Letters by Angeles Donate

Il Club delle lettere segrete, The Club of Secret Letters by Angeles Donate published by Feltrinelli and Mondolibri italian publishing houses is a suggestive novel that deserve your attention. We are in the little town of Porvenir, where the local post-woman Sara, 45 years old, three children risks to losing her job because no one send letters anymore and so the post office will close at the end of the year. She won't precisely lose her job, but she must leave the little town of 1000 souls where she was born for a biggest city. It is a thought this one for her.
But what to do?
An elderly lady, very affectionate to Rosa, can't believe at this news. Rosa is very affectionate to her and losing her company would mean to her to lose a part of what it remains of her world. Her world...
Who knows what end did her best teen-age friend? She lost contact with her 60 years ago when she started her relationship with Abel ending up to marrying him after three months of knowledge. A blessed union their one, where, including Luisa, her friend, cut out.

She thinks that if this one can be helpful for Sara  maybe it's better to write to this old lose friend. It will help her heart to healing for the pain of having excluded from her life Luisa.

She sends it...

Sara, in the while has a letter to bring to someone. A place where no one lives in  anymore and where affords just for case a 23 years old nephew of Luisa, dead time ago...

Alma 23 years old would want to become a poet and when reluctantly opens the letter sent to her poor granny and reads it, moved, she agrees that letters are important and when Rosa asks to supporting this crusade for helping Sara, she is enthusiastic of the idea.
Alma in fact followed an epistolary course at the university. A choice made that one not because in love with the topic but with her busy schedule. It was a happy surprise to her the world of letters and how big the impact of letters can be for a person.

Said that, she writes a letter and sends it to an American poet she knows she lives in this little town. Just...The American poet is devastated by alcohol, she doesn't live the happiest moment of her life and when she receives this letter, well, she is...Confused. Not anymore after that, skeptically she will read this letter, deciding to write back another letter to someone else for discovering that the joy of writing is back and enthusiasm not gone forever.

This chain will continue, and mixing technology and old-fashioned way of communication, with stamps, paper and ink, the happy end is more than sure!

To everyone in love for a happy, positive, wonderful story, love-stories included, this book brings with it a strong message: how a little, positive gesture can become viral, spreading new changes and new positive vibes in a little, apparently anonymous town.

Club per Voi the book club where I discovered this book!

Anna Maria Polidori