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 person's attempt to do a good job at this business of being human.

• | Author: Penny Guisinger
• | Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 16, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 74 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1925417050
• | ISBN-13: 9781925417050