Dear EverybodybyMichael Kimball (American Novelist)

Dear Everybody (2008) is a thrid novel by Michael Kimball.

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From Wikipedia
Kimball's third novel, Dear Everybody (2008), was published in the US and Canada, and in the UK, Australia, and South Africa. Dear Everybody developed from a short story published in Post Road Magazine called "Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathon Bender (b.1967-d.2000)." Both Stephen King and Dave Eggers selected it for their lists of notables in the The Best American Series Best American Short Stories and Best American Non-Required Reading. Time Out-New York says that Dear Everybody includes "stunning prose" and that the letters "harbor such a strange emotional power that you’ll find them hard to forget."  The LA Times comments: "There is a whole life contained in this slim novel, a life as funny and warm and sad and heartbreaking as any other, rendered with honest complexity and freshness by Kimball's sharp writing."

Jonathon Bender, the main character, had something to say, but the world wouldn’t listen. That’s why he writes to everybody he has ever known—including his mother and father, his brother and other relatives, his childhood friends and neighbors, the Tooth Fairy, his classmates and teachers, his psychiatrists, his ex-girlfriends and his ex-wife, the state of Michigan, a television station, and a weather satellite. Taken together, these unsent letters tell the remarkable story of Jonathon’s life.

Christine Schutt, author of Florida, writes of Dear Everybody that “In Bender’s unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder.”

Italian filmmaker and artist Luca Dipierro made a short film based on Dear Everybody

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Product Description
Traces the nuances of a short-lived life, maintaining a tone of finely judged tension between laughter and tears in a sympathetically written work of fiction.