It’s a wonderfully enriching experience to read a book in its own unique geography, the live oaks, the marsh grasses, the armored gators, the heavy southern air, the coastal dialects, the centrality of Clemson football, the shrimp boats bobbing on the waves off the beaches, the salt-and-mud smell which brings you back to the beginning of time when primordial life crawled out of the sea. You don’t just read the story; you can almost live it.