Goodreads asked Stacy Barton:

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

Stacy Barton my new book coming in april is LILY HARP -- a novella and stories. the novella is set off the southwest coast of florida on a barrier island named little gasparilla island. i've gone there with my husband and children for over 15 years. it is a place full of poetry that i absolutely adore and i knew i wanted to set a story there. so i did. i walked around the island for a week getting to know her; i wrote about the sun, the water, the mangrove trees, the sunrise and set; the sticky heat. i wrote for a week about the island having no idea who's story i was going to tell. turns out the story was lily harp's - a 17 year old pregnant girl in 1976 who had lost her mother to suicide seven years before. inside the maternal mangroves, with an odd assortment of enemies and friends, she learns what to do with the child she carries.

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