North Side of Chicago

Oh, forgot to mention a very personal aspect of re-reading Time Traveler's Wife - the main "present time" and place for the story is North side of Chicago, in the early 1990s. Milady and I moved there in 1980, had our three kids, and fled in 1994. Familiar scenes, driving past the Green Mill, dining at Ann Sather's, the museum or the lake shore or downtown.

Those were (mostly) good years for us, in some ways the best life we ever had. Well, not to compare, because I enjoy our humbler Oklahoma rural life so much, but, you know, the early days with our kids, and the advantages a city has. Can hardly stand to even go back to visit, but it was a good time and place to live.