Goodreads asked Richard Sutton:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Richard Sutton When you've lived as full a life as I have, there are relatively few mysteries remaining unanswered, but the one that I believe powers most of my ongoing questioning of almost everything has to do with my childhood. From the time I was in preschool, until I entered Junior High School, we moved every year, sometimes more than once. It was usually to a new state, and the result was that while I learned how to adapt, being the new kid all the time, I didn't really feel all that at home anywhere until I was in college. I finally got to know myself, but despite my around and about questions to my folks, I never learned, really why we had been gypsies all those years. My father made occasional excuses, having to do with jobs availability, etc. but it wasn't until long after I'd left to discover my real life in the East that they settled down and bought a home, etc. Every March, something triggers a bout of investigation as to the whys, but I never find any particular answers, so while it is no longer a daily issue for me, it does run below the surface posing questions.

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