Five epistolary works of historical fiction

Rachel Brittain is a writer, Day Dreamer, and Amateur Aerialist. Her short fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. She is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she screams into the void about her love of books. Brittain lives in Northwest Arkansas with a rambunctious rescue pup, a snake, and a houseful of plants (most of which aren’t carnivorous).

At Book Riot she tagged five epistolary historical fiction novels. including:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

A girl desperate to escape the bullying of her fellow classmates in Tokyo writes a series of diary entries documenting the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun. An ocean away, a novelist living on a remote island discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox filled with mysterious artifacts she suspects washed away in the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan. It reveals the lives of people completely unknown to her. Their stories may change her completely, even so.

TW for bullying and mentions of suicide.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue