Postcards from Here

Postcards from Here is a capturing of a community a harsh and beautiful place a family and the internal experience of its author in the form of micro-essays. The book takes on the realities of rural New England life the moments and details that stitch a community together the politics of being gay and divorced in such a place and the visceral details of raising children gardening porcupines travel marriage and other hazards of living. Written in a coastal community at the eastern edge of the United States this book works to transcend the Maine depicted on touristy postcards by crafting missives its rural residents might really send-what true stories this place and its people have to tell. The individual pieces in Postcards tell stories that are both intensely personal and entirely communal in scope and as a collection they create a portrait of one persons attempt to do a good job at this business of being human.