I don't think that term actually exists, but as a reader who lives in a tiny town of 1500 people, and visited even smaller towns. I want to see us represented. I am working on a graphic novel set in a town similar to my hometown, but outside of my imagination, are there any books where the population is smaller than 1800 people?
It kinda frustrates me at times to pick up a book about a small town, and it's nothing like any tiny town I've been to. Resources don't always exist. My town has no police force, no local fire team, no mental health services, no Walmart. I know no town is going to be similar to my small town until I write it, but people having access to a pharmacy; we don't even that anymore, and we did, it was akin to returning to the 1970s…
I want to read a book set in a small podunk rural town.
Any recommendations? I do prefer YA or not so spicy adult/NA. I tend to like realistic fiction. I like to see mental health challenges. In my real life, I'm fighting to see a therapist at all because I can't medically drive. I just hope I'm not the only author that has thought of this bit of representation.
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