Goodreads asked Pamela Harstad:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Pamela Harstad I would describe a life mystery as something that occurred and I don't have an answer how or why--it's a mystery. So that might include any life experience I can't totally explain. For instance, why was I born in a country of wealth when so many in the world have very little. But here's where imagination comes in--a story of a person who does their best to feed the hungry, but the greedy and foreign country beaurocrats get in the way. Will the heroine succeed or will her life be endangered?

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