Mark Z. Danielewski's The whalestoe letters
(Book)

Originally contained in appendix II-E of House of leaves; also includes 5 additional letters.

Pelafina H. Lièvre is a fictional character in the novel.

"Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love."--Publisher's description.