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I agree. I even went to Google Earth to examine the NC coast for a location that has beach, marsh, swamp, forest, lagoons & freshwater in the same area. Bream are fresh water fish and cast iron doesn't dent. Just details. But distracting.
It’s a novel people, not a biography. I’m sure most people who read the book didn’t care about how far from a town her camp was.
Interesting you bring up Georgia, because I thought the same thing, especially with all of the references to palmettos. Since the author grew up in Georgia, I was wondering if she originally wrote the setting as Georgia, then changed it at the last minute based on some editor or publisher feedback. To me, the constant Asheville references were distracting. Couldn't she have looked on a map and picked a closer city?
She lives near Asheville now, but she definitely got NC geography all wrong.
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I agree. I even went to Google Earth to examine the NC coast for a location that has beach, marsh, swamp, forest, lagoons & freshwater in the same area. Bream are fresh water fish and cast iron doesn't dent. Just details. But distracting.
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It’s a novel people, not a biography. I’m sure most people who read the book didn’t care about how far from a town her camp was.
Interesting you bring up Georgia, because I thought the same thing, especially with all of the references to palmettos. Since the author grew up in Georgia, I was wondering if she originally wrote the setting as Georgia, then changed it at the last minute based on some editor or publisher feedback. To me, the constant Asheville references were distracting. Couldn't she have looked on a map and picked a closer city?
She lives near Asheville now, but she definitely got NC geography all wrong.
