Patchett was inspired to use Elkins Park as the novel's setting because when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence College she would spend holidays and weekends with her friend Erica Buchsbaum Schultz at her family's house in Wyncote, near Elkins Park and Jenkintown. Originally the book was set in Jenkintown, though when Patchett finished it, Schultz suggested that she move the setting to Elkins Park. She also chose Elkins Park given its proximity to New York, which she already knew would feature in the novel.[5]
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