Goodreads asked S.K. Kalsi:

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

S.K. Kalsi For The Stove-Junker, I took a trip back to my old hometown of Drums, PA. While there, I took many photographs and when I returned began to see how, despite the beauty of the landscape, there existed a deep sadness, loneliness, and undercurrent of violence. I took my feelings about what I experienced and connected it with my uncle's story of losing his daughter (my cousin) in a terrorist bombing. His grief, his pain, his neglect of the role he played in driving his daughter away became the basis of the novel.

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