Get to know Ava Dellaira

Ava Dellaira was born in Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, and then received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after which she moved to Los Angeles assisting Stephen Chbosky, the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as an associate producer on his film adaptation of the book. Author of Love Letters to the Dead, Ava adapted it into a screenplay for Temple Hill (the company that produced Twilight and The Fault In Our Stars). She has since written In Search of Us and the upcoming adult novel Exposure.

Hometown

Albuquerque, NM

Fun fact

I have no middle name

Favorite author

Jesmyn Ward, Ann Patchett, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante

Favorite place in the world

Sandwiched between my two kids as they fall asleep

Favorite place to read

In bed by candlelight. Also I love airplanes for reading! And beaches / poolsides—who doesn’t?

Books by Ava Dellaira

Exposure

Ava Dellaira

Published September 10, 2024
Paperback coming June 24, 2025

GRIEF IS LIKE THIS . . .

Falling in love with your best friend, only to lose her to a mysterious death. 

Working for decades to achieve a dream, and just when it’s within reach, watching it threaten to go up in flames. 

Longing for your deceased father to celebrate with you when your first novel sells. 

Spending the first sleepless months in the throes of new motherhood alone, as your husband struggles to save his career.  

Befriending the woman who should be your enemy, because you are that lonely…

Annie, Jesse, Noah, and Juliette are tied together by their experiences of grief; they are separated by their own versions of the truth of what happened on a single night twelve years ago, when Juliette, a college freshman grieving her mother, and Noah, a high school senior fighting for a place in a world that told him he didn’t matter, found each other. Spanning decades, this complex, captivating story pulls back the curtains of cancel culture to explore ambition, empathy, art, desire, consent, motherhood, and what it really means to lose everything.

 

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