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Fourteen Sister is likely to upset some readers Occurrences that seem disreputable in Garcia Marquez' Picturesque backwater towns become more distorting when they arise in Cobbleton, Pennsylvania at the beginning of the novel, a plane crashes because the Montez O'Brten house exudes so much femininity that the pilot is overcome and the engine malfunctions; later, the ghost of Nelson's sister returns to watch him make love to Mariels. American readers can swallow these events when they're set in Macondo and Aracatacas; magical realism has been relegated to the level of quaint events in imaginary south...
...Returning to your book, what of its setting Cobbleton, Pennsylvania...
...laughs) It's my Macondo. It's now being written about as if it were a real place, and what cracks me up in the reviews is that no one says that Cobbleton is not a real town...
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