Goodreads asked Elizabeth Miyu Blake:

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

Elizabeth Miyu Blake As an adult who was adopted, I remember feeling like I was very different from my family. Somehow, it did not occur to me until much later that we belong to families in many different ways, not just being biologically related and looking like our family. We belong because we care about each other. Accepting differences is needed in our world. And it can start very early for children who are adopted and want to belong. Really belong. Even when they feel so different from those around them. That was the beginning. Recently my daughter adopted a child of African ethnicity. Her birthparents were from Ethiopia and Sudan. She looks even more unlike her family than I did in mine. I hope that she feels she belongs, though the differences are very apparent.

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