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Name a place in the US and I will pick for you a book exemplifying that local culture
Isaiah Brooks
Ryan Wilson
berkeley, california
Hunter Hernandez
The Bronx
Josiah Jackson
Champion Ohio
Gabriel Cruz
Dharma Bums, or really anything by Kerouac
kind of specific but great NYC books that are tangential to the bronx are Bonfire of the Vanities and Underworld. For more of the urban african american theme go with Invisible Man or anything by August Wilson.
I dunno where that is but google didn't help. If you want quaint midwest, Winesburg, OH. For gritty rust belt, Man with the Golden Arm. If thats the hillbilly part of Ohio then Child of God.
Evan Murphy
San Antonio, Texas
Jacob Parker
Kitsap county, Washington
Ryan Russell
You really suck at this.
Jordan Cox
East Atlanta zone 6
James Perez
Las Vegas, Nevada