Tom Blyth reads Kurt Vonnegut's beautiful ode to his mother

On Mother’s Day in 1944, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his sister, Allie, found their mother dead at the family home in Indianapolis. Two weeks later, grief-stricken, Kurt wrote a letter to his fiancée.

Tom Blyth joined us to read this incredibly moving letter at Letters Live at Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire UK, in August 2023.

© Kurt Vonnegut, 1967, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited