![]() ![]() ![]() Stacker compiled a list of books set in California from Goodreads. Whether a writer sets a tale in the town where they went to college or spent part of their childhood-like Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” and its New England arts school setting and the almost-factual small town of Jo Ann Beard’s “In Zanesville,” respectively-or crafts a story that follows a social or political theme to a location they know little about but lay narrative claim to anyway, the world is rife with books known, loved, and respected that also capture the essence of place-books where setting itself is one of the strongest characters. Of course, there are certainly exceptions. The connection, from a writerly standpoint, is deeper than that-their work, nearly all of it, is set in “their” state. What makes authors like these inextricably associated with a particular state is not simply the matter of their having been born there or choosing to live there. ![]()
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