The book is fiction, but the place is real.
Stiltsville is a group of wood stilt houses located one mile south of Cape Florida on Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The structures stand on wood or reinforced concrete pilings, generally ten feet above the shallow water, which varies from one to three feet deep at low tide. Read more about Stiltsville’s history at Wikipedia.
Susanna Daniel grew up spending weekends at her family’s stilthouse, which was built by her grandfather in 1954 and destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1993.
