Fiction

Minneapolis, although only about two years.

I really love reading books that are set somewhere that I know. I once picked up a book in a bookstore, and the very first page mentions something called the Nine Mile Woods. The next page mentions the Nine Mile Creek, which I knew, and so I bought the book. It's Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee, and takes place mostly in the very small town in Upstate New York where I lived as a child. She fictionalizes the town, but I had an email exchange with her and yes, she was using that town, just made a few changes, including the name. Characters keep on driving to Utica on Glass Factory Road, the very road I lived on. Wow.