Goodreads asked Eric K. Goodman:

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

Eric K. Goodman CUPPY AND STEW: THE BOMBING OF FLIGHT 629, A LOVE STORY, is narrated by a character who shares the name and much of the early life experience of my wife, the literary critic Susan Morgan. Cuppy and Stew were her parents, and they perished on United Flight 629, when a young man put a bomb on that doomed flight to kill his mother, murdering all 44 people on the plane.

Cuppy and Stew's doomed romantic life, and the struggles of their two young orphaned daughters to survive their deaths was, for many years, the most dramatic untold story I knew. Finally, after years of research in Vancouver BC and interviewing my wife, I was ready to write it

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