The Postcard is a  novel originally published in French (in 2021) by Anne Berest (translated into English in 2023). Inspired by events in Berest’s own family (an anonymously penned postcard arriving with nothing but the names of the family’s ancestors who died in the Holocaust), the novel is seeped in family. Indeed, the first-person narrator is a writer named Anne. Berest divides her novel into four sections—two lengthy ones and two brief— as she constructs story within story that explores the inherited trauma and intergenerational pain inherent to contemporary French Jews.