A very unique take on epistolary novels (or at least novels with an epistolary element): one whose chapters are introduced by postcards that cannot get a reply because the sender is running away from his past and his crimes without leaving an address.
I wish the edition of the book that I have didn't include reviews praising it as the new "great American novel" because this really isn't a reflection on American values, poverty and family ties of the caliber of Grapes of Wrath, but it is a really good novel nonetheless.
Loyal (the main character) is someone the reader gets to know and support - a bit! - throughout the novel despite not forgetting that he committed an atrocious murder right at the start. The rest of the family, however, are not people I could bring myself to find particularly interesting (except perhaps the mother?) as their lives and life stories were a bit too scattered due to the structure of the book.
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