My new book, Dear Elvis, is a story about a woman who,
after learning about the death of a beloved friend, turns to her childhood idol
for guidance. In a series of letters to Elvis, she describes her overwhelming
sense of loss and disbelief. Along the way she meets a complete stranger, a priest
named Father Chris, who encourages her to continue her search for answers, and sends her on an unforgettable journey to Graceland - and beyond. The first of the forty-two letters written to Elvis begins this way:
Dear Elvis,
I’m sorry that you’re dead. Forty-two was much
too young to die and you have been dead for such a long time. But then dead is
dead, or at least that’s what a writing instructor told me once. He said there
are no comparative or superlative forms for dead. There is no dead, deader,
deadest. There is only just dead. But then I’ll bet you already knew
that.
So listen Elvis, where are you? Are you in
heaven? And if you are, where is heaven? To tell you the truth, I kind of
believe in heaven. So there must be one. I just don’t know where it is and I
kind of figured you would know since, well, you know, you’ve been there for
forever. And you must know everybody. Like, do you meet everyone after they
arrive? Everyone who knew you? Or knew of you?
Let me get to the point. Is Don there? Have you
seen him? Have you talked to him?...
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