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As a Canadian, that should probably irk me more than it does. But I did grad school in Wisconsin and spent a lot of time in Chicago while I was there, so I've also got a lot of affection for the city. Now I kind of want to know if Jeevan and Kirsten walked across Lake Ontario instead of Lake Michigan in the book. (Not enough to read the book, though. 😉)

I had NO IDEA about Midwest geography until I lived there. (I had more than one Michigan kid show me in the classes I taught where they were from using their hand as the Michigan catcher's mitt. 😆 The first time it happened, I had NO IDEA what the heck they were doing.)