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Book 1: Chapter 1 Summary
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.
Book 1: Chapter 1 Analysis
Ginny is certain that any round or spherical object coming to a stop would immediately put down tap roots, hidden from sight in the fertile soil. She can neither fully convince herself that the world is round nor that flat Zebulon County isn't its center.
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