![]() ![]() I don’t know what the population was when she was growing up, but the 2010 census puts it at 429. Melanie Hoffert grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota. I feel like they’re a part of me, but I’ve never been a part of them. I love dirt roads and farms and small towns. We made the drive out there at least once a year and running around the comparatively small town of Plattsmouth made me feel like a country girl.Īs an adult, I lived in Lincoln, NE for a couple of years and spent my free time driving around the dirt roads and exploring abandoned farmsteads in Nebraska and Kansas and South Dakota, only rarely all the way up into North Dakota. I loved those drives through what others consider flyover country. Although I grew up in an urban environment, my family spent many hours driving back and forth between Chicago and Plattsmouth, Nebraska where we spent a lot of time visiting friends that were like family. Any book with the word ‘prairie’ or ‘plains’ in the title catches my eye. I saw an advertisement for this book on the sidebar of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s website. ![]()
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