While cleaning out the attic, Edith Vonnegut stumbled upon an unexpected treasure: more than 200 love letters written by her father, Kurt Vonnegut, to his first wife, Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship. These letters overlap the World War II service that Vonnegut chronicled in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, while also revealing this sly and pugnacious writer's tender side. Better still, this book reproduces many of these letters in facsimile—along with his drawings, doodles, and rare photographs—providing further insight into the hopes and thoughts of the young Vonnegut.