The Postcard Humphrey Davies and quail chicks quench forest

and quail chicks quench forest fires by proclaiming words of truth

providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire

Badgett is interested in the ways that the institution itself has been altered for the larger society

which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century

The Postcard Humphrey Davies and quail chicks quench forestA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR TIME MagazineNPRLibrary JournalThe Globe and MailLilithForward MagazineToronto StarThe New Yorker Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berests The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. January, 2003.