Story Map

Real locations behind the fiction — Minnesota, Alaska, Michigan, Arizona, and beyond.

Grand Rapids, Minnesota — Lot Seven

The county road runs north out of Grand Rapids and gives up its blacktop past the last of the tar-paper places. Four miles of washboard gravel later, past the last mailbox and the last power pole with a transformer on it, is the Brandt place. Grand Rapids is real. The farmhouse is not.

Birchwater — location unknown — Lot Seven