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Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor is a semi-autobiographical novel that explores the history and daily life of the fictional small town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, loosely based on the author’s hometown and initially introduced on his Public Radio show "Prairie House Companion." The novel alternates between a first-person recount of the town’s history and a third-person narrative focusing on the character Johnny, detailing the lives of the town’s eccentric residents and their routines throughout the changing seasons in the 1960s.