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by Jane Smiley
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Ginny, the protagonist, an eight-year-old in 1951, introduces the dimensions of her flat world: a farm stretching a mile along Country Road 686—even numbered roads run east to west—whose southern edge can be viewed from the small rise on which this blacktop road intersects with the Cabot Road in the American heartland of Iowa's Zebulon County. To her eye, the farm, not the nearby small canyon carved by the Zebulon River is scenic. (read more)
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      Book 2: Chapter 8
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      Book 3: Chapter 18
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      Book 4: Chapter 29
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      Book 5: Chapter 35
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      Book 6: Chapter 42
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      Epilogue

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