Forrestville, Tennessee

This is where Dill, Travis, and Lydia live and attend high school. The town is relatively small and is within driving distance of Nashville. There are only a few specific places in the town that are of importance, including the homes of the three main characters, the high school, the bookstore, the grocery store where Dill works, and the mill where Travis works. Lydia disapproves of the name because the town is named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general.

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the largest town near Forrestville, and the characters occasionally go there to shop. Lydia takes Dill shopping there for back-to-school clothes as the novel opens. This is also where Lydia and Dill take Travis to meet his favorite author, G.M. Pennington. The town is real, unlike Forrestville, and the places described in the novel are either real (such as the Middle Tennessee...