Goodreads asked Catherine Kapphahn:

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

Catherine Kapphahn In my second attempt at college, I was sitting in my very first creative writing class at Hunter College in New York with an inspiring and lively Italian American professor and writer named Louise DeSalvo. She made us all feel like we deserved to write our stories. At the time, I was sinking in grief, I had just lost my mom to ovarian cancer and I felt lost and alone. In that classroom, I ended up writing the chapter about my mother's dying that appears in this book. That was the beginning of a long journey that showed me this story was going to be about so much more and led me on many adventures. The writing helped me travel back in time and resurrect the relatives I never knew and build relationships with them. It sent me into the magical place that exists between mothers and daughters even when one of them has died.

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