Hate Mail

Naomi and Luca have been pen pals since fifth grade, though "pen pals" undersells it — their letters have always been an escalating war of insults and verbal sparring that somehow, over years and thousands of miles, became real friendship. Then two years ago, the letters just stopped, right after the one that changed everything.

When a new envelope from Luca shows up out of the blue at Naomi's desk at the local news station, she's determined not to let him have the last word. Told through years of letters and present-day chapters, Naomi and Luca's antagonistic history slowly reveals itself as something that was never just friendship at all.

Donna Marchetti delivers an epistolary rom-com about a decades-long rivalry that was actually a love story all along.