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Name: Postcards
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Annie Proulx

In Postcards, Annie Proulx spins the tale of Loyal Blood, a restless youth who departs his Vermont farm family to pursue fortune in fields ranging from uranium prospecting to dinosaur‑bone digging. While the family remains rooted in their rural home, Loyal’s only link to them are a series of postcards he sends, revealing the secret burden of accidentally killing his girlfriend, Billy. As Loyal travels far and wide, those letters become a lifeline that keeps his father’s memory, his brother’s and sister’s lives, and his mother’s perseverance from sliding away. Proulx’s narrative explores how rural bonds endure even when family members spread across the country, revealing the quiet resilience of farm life amid the backdrop of New England’s plain and promise.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Annie Proulx

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