Brief Summary Of Doll Bones

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Doll Bones begins in small town Pennsylvania where Zach, Alice, and Poppy live. Zach 's dad refers to it as "West of Nowhere, Pennsylvania, claiming it bordered Better off Forgotten, West Virginia, and Already Forgotten, Ohio" (Page 5-11). While certain pop culture references mark the story as vaguely contemporary, we don 't know precisely when it 's taking place. What stands out most about the setting is how economically depressed it is. Zach recalls his grandparents ' stories of "how the big Victorian houses—the ones built by some famous architect, the ones that were in the center of town—used to be owned by single families and not divided into run-down apartments" (Page 149-156). Many of the stores on Main Street have boarded up windows,