A Prayer for Owen Meany

What is the setting of A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving?

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The novel is set in two different times and places—1987 Toronto, Canada and 1950s and 1960s New Hampshire. While the narrator takes great pains to describe the setting of Gravesend, New Hampshire—the town where he grew up—he spends very little time describing his adult life surroundings.