The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer

The book, The Mailbox, by Audrey Shafer, sounds so good. I think I’m going to put it on my book queue with my new book club for the kids. It is about a little boy who lives in one foster home after another and just leads a really hard life. Then, at the age of nine, he is sent off to live with his old uncle. His uncle is quite the grump, but, he has some amazing stories to tell and a heart of gold. He is a good, stable person for the boy. Sadly, the uncle dies when the boy is still quite young. The boy is terrified and so sad, and so he doesn’t tell anyone that his uncle has died. And mysteriously, the body disappears and lots of cards start to show up in the mailbox. One of the big themes of this book is interconnectedness and I think the author uses the symbol of mailboxes to represent that.

Everyone seems to have a little bit of a different take on it, as with any book, really. But with every review that I read, I just want to read the book all that more!