Some readers have suggested I put a map on my website, detailing Katie’s journey thru The Spirit Keeper. While I can understand the desire for such a map, I’m reluctant to do this for several reasons:
1. Specific locations aren’t relevant to the story, which is mostly about what’s going on in Katie’s head.
2. Katie doesn’t know where she is & she’s the one telling the story. If I tell you stuff she doesn’t/can’t know, I’ll be changing the way the story works.
3. This story is more allegory than “true.” No one named Katie O’Toole actually went on such a journey. You cannot go find artifacts left behind from her passage.
All this being said, I will admit I know exactly where Katie is at every step of her journey. I have maps, pictures, & historical descriptions of the entire route. All the events of this story COULD have transpired exactly as described. So why don’t I share these with you? Um, because . . . (Click on Read More)
4. I’d like you to use your imagination to make this story your own. I want you to know where Katie is every step of the way, not because I told you so but because you see it all in your own mind’s eye. If I shove a map in your face & say, “This is where she is!” I’ll be getting between you & the story & I don’t want to do that. So if you want to look at a map, go look at Google maps & become as much an expert on Katie’s whereabouts as I am.
(PS. I’ve heard some pretty wild guesses about the location of the Misery River, & this is one I just can’t let slide: Ahem. It’s the Missouri.)
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