Byars chose her home of twenty years, West Virginia, as the setting for The Summer of the Swans. Her abiding appreciation of the locale's natural beauty permeates her descriptions, making them authentic. She says that she set the novel in West Virginia "to give the reader the feeling of the power of the land over the individual." The idea for the swans in.....
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