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I live in North Carolina and only got to page 43 of this book before I commented to my daughter that I didn't think the author had ever been in North Carolina, and possibly didn't even look at a map of the state. My issues were many, and have been described very well by Lou and others who are from the North Carolina coast, and who also gave one star reviews. Even without the stereotypical speech that tries to pass for Southern and is nowhere near any of the rich coastal North Carolina dialects, and even without the fact that one of the characters goes to Asheville from the coast to "discuss some issues with the army", and even without the fact that along the Graveyard of the Atlantic, which the author mentions in setting the scene, you would not be able to walk directly to the ocean from the mainland as Kya does without having to swim across the Pamlico Sound and cross over one of the Outer Banks to the ocean, I would not want to waste another minute reading this book (even to find out how Crawdads manage to sing).