I don't think an epistolary novel is my favorite type to read. This consists of newspaper clippings, emails (book set in 2002), handwritten notes passed in school and put into a bottle floating down a river. 

Goodnight, Kansas (doesn't really) welcome a family of 3 New Yorkers to their little town. The mom grew up here and ran and her sisters find it hard to forgive. The dad failed the legacy of his family's deli and resolved to never cook again.

These outsiders will become involved in the town through a diner, a hotel and by bringing down a tire company that's polluting a lake. 

My favorite parts of this book were the alpacas that live in the New Yorker's house, yes the house. Also, the wind chimes that keep going missing and the goats.