Goodreads asked Ginger Pinholster:

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

Ginger Pinholster In City in a Forest, a pristine wilderness has managed to persist, but it risks being flattened by an unscrupulous developer — unless two brave women can stop him. The fictional forest, Silver Park, was inspired by Lynwood Park, a neighborhood in Brookhaven. My father coached the Stormy Petrels basketball team at Oglethorpe University, so we lived near Lynwood Park, and it fascinated me. Too many such communities were unfairly seized in past decades, but Lynwood Park is still thriving. In writing my book, I imagined what would happen if a pristine forest somehow escaped destruction during Atlanta’s building boom of the 1970s, hidden within one of Atlanta’s historic African-American neighborhoods.

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