Goodreads asked Danny Scheinmann:

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

Danny Scheinmann Random Acts of Heroic Love was inspired by real events in my family. My grandfather was captured in WW1 by the Russians and was taken to a POW camp in Siberia. He escaped in 1917 and spent 3 years walking back across Russia to his childhood sweetheart in, what is now, Southern Poland.
As for the modern story the opening chapters are actually the most autobiographical part of the book. I was in a bus crash in Ecuador and lost my girlfriend. I didn't acknowledge this fact in the epilogue because I didn't want to talk about it back then or make a big thing of what I had been through.

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