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Naiko works in the Undeliverable Mail Office where, immersed in things lost and missing, she searches for clues to match undeliverable mail with addresses. Her job allows her to achieve a semblance of order in a disorderly world. It is a shock, then, when Naiko’ s co-worker Andrei, an enigmatic Romanian refugee, suddenly vanishes.This astonishing debut novel unfolds in compelling, delicately wrought layers. Naiko’ s shifting understanding of Andrei’ s past becomes an opaque reflection of her own existence, and objects— from the pens hoarded by Naiko’ s mother in her retirement home to the personal effects of Jewish women that Andrei’ s grandmother sorts through at Birkenau— become touchstones for memories and meaning, loss and love.Pages of The Letter Opener :
