The narrator of a novel set in this state recounts how her sister once wrote "PETE DID THIS" on her own cast after her husband broke her arm. A minister who lives in this state narrates the death of his wife in childbirth and that of his daughter soon afterwards, an experience that allows him to reconcile with Jack Boughton. John Ames lives in this state, where the inheritance of a farm by the (*) Cook family's three daughters begins an extended allegory to King Lear. It is the setting of Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead and of Jane Smiley's n
The narrator of a novel set in this state recounts how her sister once wrote "PETE DID THIS" on her own cast after her husband broke her arm. A minister who lives in this state narrates the death of his wife in childbirth and that of his daughter soon afterwards, an experience that allows him to reconcile with Jack Boughton. John Ames lives in this state, where the inheritance of a farm by the (*) Cook family's three daughters begins an extended allegory to King Lear. It is the setting of Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead and of Jane Smiley's novel A Thousand Acres. Robert Kincaid travels to this state to do a photoshoot about its Covered Bridges of Madison County. For 10 points, name this midwestern state where a university hosts a creative writing master's program called its Writers' Workshop.
The narrator of a novel set in this state recounts how her sister once wrote "PETE DID THIS" on her own cast after her husband broke her arm.
Iowa