“I expected to love this novel and maybe I will after the further cogitation it deserves. The postcard device is clever, offering glimpses or snapshots of events, useful as place/time markers and frequently offering blessed reprieve from very very dense prose along the way. Proulx's writing is excellent, her prose always ultra descriptive and often lyrical but sometimes tending to run on a beat longer than I, for one, needed. The chronicles of the Blood family are always interesting but the...”