Karl asked Susan Henderson:

Thank you for the new book! It was so good. The emotional intensity, the people, ... everything. I was curious about your choice to not mention the Internet? From my experience in rural Oregon, i imagine it would not be a big part of life (can't get the chores done or the roads plowed on the net), but still, it's ubiquitious ... just wondering. Thanks again for the great, great, book.

Susan Henderson Hi Karl, Thank you for this. And grateful that you read and enjoyed the book! There are a few mentions of TV and the internet as showing the new generations what opportunities and conveniences are out there for them, and also showing a world that, for some, doesn't reflect who they are are who they want to become. But I kept it fairly absent in the book, one, to keep the story world more contained and, two, because when I spent a month in the town that inspired Petroleum, I couldn't get a cell phone connection or more than a spinning wheel on the internet the entire time I was there.

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