The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
The Wednesday Letters is a short novel about trust, forgiveness and unconditional love.
Jack and Laurel cooper have been married 39 years. They died in each other’s arms. When their adult children come to tend to the funeral arrangements, they find boxes of letters at the house that their father has been writing every Wednesday to their mother since the day they met.
Over the course of a weekend, the siblings are brought together as well as stunned as they read these letters. They read through a lifetime belonging to their parents. This is a love story, a life story, but mostly a story of a family’s tribulations and deepest secrets.
Jason F. Wright definitely knows how and when to touch a reader’s heart. With such an emotional story line and superb story building plot, I was totally engrossed in this novel. As the story develops and more letters are being exposed, Malcolm, being the youngest child found out something he did rather not know. Unlike Matthew and Samantha, he was not born to Jack. He was born to another father. This huge truth was being hidden from him and both his siblings for so many years. Hurt and devastated, Malcolm was determined to find out who his biological father was. As he and his siblings continued reading through all the letters, they found out a lot more about their parents that they previously didn’t know about. Towards the end of the novel, Jason F.Wright brilliantly ends it with shocking information that will leave the reader in absolute awe.
In the Epilogue, Malcolm, the youngest son, says to his own son “…Son, this is history, It’s our history, some of it’s painful, some of it’s beautiful, but it’s who we are!” Right before actually closing the book, you will find an awesome treat glued to the back inside cover. (: To find out what that is, you have to read this novel!
One downside about this novel is that the characters don’t have a chance to become as real as I’d like. Even so, The Wednesday Letters is a wonderful feel good novel that addresses real life problems with a deft touch.
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