What is the setting of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski?

The setting of the novel "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" is in northern Wisconsin near the Chequamegon Forest in the United States in the late 1950s and 1960s. The setting works well for the novel, focusing on a time without the internet, without advanced police detection and autopsy techniques and a rural place the enables Edgar to escape and live off of the land until he returns home.