Goodreads asked Brett Dakin:

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

Brett Dakin I never met Lev Gleason; he died five years before I was born. Growing up, I relished the stories my mother would tell me about her flamboyant, free-spending uncle from New York City. The story I loved most of all was the one about Uncle Lev’s Day: the day, once a year, when Lev and his wife would drive to my mother’s house near Boston, pile her and as many of her young friends as possible into his gleaming aqua Packard, and head to the mall, where each kid was free to buy whatever her heart desired—courtesy of Uncle Lev. He was my mother's Emperor of Ice Cream!

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