Goodreads asked Praveen Asthana:

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

Praveen Asthana When I was a child, I often had to wear hand-me-downs from my cousins. But my mother was always careful to choose which clothes to accept from relatives--she would only take ones from well behaved kids because she worried some of the character of the bad kids could get embedded in the clothes and transferred on to me. I thought that was a fascinating concept and I used it in this novel.

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