It's 1979. Fourteen year-old Sarah "Cady" Kincaid, known to her mom as Pete, doesn't know much about her father except that he died halfway around the world in a foreign country called Vietnam. She doesn't know why her uncle would volunteer to serve in Vietnam after his older brother was killed there. She doesn't know why her best friend George is such an intellectual snob. She doesn't know if her father even knew that she was born three days before he was killed in action or if he knew she's a girl. She doesn't know why her mom never paints anymore and why painting is the only thing that makes Pete herself feel alive. Most of all, she doesn't know why she, who has spent her life writing copious letters, notes, and journal entries, has started receiving them...mysterious drawings and objects that arrive, without postmarks, from someone who possibly knew her father in a land thousands of miles away from her home in Los Angeles. In order to finally deal with the pain caused by the loss of her father, Pete must figure out who is sending the mysterious notes--and why this person wants her to have them.
LETTERS FROM APARTMENT FOUR is a young adult novel written in a blend of first person narration and epistolary format.
