A map of 1,001 novels to show us where to find the real America (via latimesopinion )
Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 2016, when the news and the elections told of a country being irrevocably divided by politics, by ideas of red and blue, by arguments over who is American and who is not.
I made 1,001 books my goal, just as Scheherazade in “The Arabian Nights” told that many stories to stay alive. Maybe these books can keep us going as we read about the places we or our parents came from, regions we don’t know, homes lived in decades or centuries ago or homes made last year by someone new.Click on each dot to see the novel set in that location.
Working with the story maps team at Esri, I drew all over my paper map, seeing regions emerge in the novels for each state. We ended up with, chosen for spines of mountain ranges, shared coastlines, prairie expanses.
Into the misty lowlands along the Intracoastal Waterway, the bays and sea islands of South Carolina through forests, abandoned plantations and tobacco fields, and eventually America’s capital, places to revel in summer fireflies.Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
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