Goodreads asked Ken Wheaton:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ken Wheaton Years and years ago, my mom told me a story about growing up in Grand Prairie, Louisiana, in which one of her sisters did not get a visit from the tooth fairy -- because money was too tight to be wasted on old teeth. In the morning, upon finding no money and a dead rabbit, my aunt jumped to an obvious conclusion. I'd wanted to get that story into a novel for years -- sort of as a tribute to "my people." But between other books, day jobs and, most important, an inability to come up with an actual main character and narrative, I kept putting it off. Sadly, a couple of years ago, that same aunt passed away and it sort of unlocked a lot of stuff inside me. This wasn't an easy book to write, but I loved writing it.

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