After committing a violent act that he cannot undo, Loyal Blood leaves his family’s farm in rural Vermont and begins a life of restless wandering across the American landscape. Moving from place to place, he takes on temporary work and drifts through decades of change, sending occasional postcards home but never truly returning. His journey is marked by isolation and a persistent sense of dislocation, as he struggles to outrun both his past and himself.

Back on the farm, the family he left behind continues without him, adapting to shifting economic and social realities. Their lives unfold in parallel, shaped by absence, resilience, and the gradual transformation of the land they depend on. The contrast between Loyal’s rootless existence and the family’s attempts to endure creates a portrait of lives moving in different directions yet bound by shared history.

Spanning generations and landscapes, Postcards explores themes of loss, identity, and the passage of time. It is a stark and expansive novel about the consequences of a single act and the enduring ties between people and place, even when those ties are stretched across distance and years.