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The first half of the novel was easy for me to get into because the concept really struck my interest. The idea of re-naming a town for the sake of ’catching up with the twenty first century’ seems like such a trendy, American thing to do. It reminded me of how people in the public eye give themselves stage names when they are up and coming. These names are more marketable than what they were given at birth, and they stick.  This made me wonder at my own attachments with my name, and that I might have difficulty changing my name. In many ways a name represents history, such as a last name is inherited through being a part of a family and the name of the town I live in dates back to Dutch settlers. In a way, changing a name seems to be changing a history or what we believe to know about that history.