Goodreads asked Jeannette Ronson:

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

Jeannette Ronson Cinderella Borscht Belt is based loosely on my experience as a naive working class eighteen-year-old from Upstate New York working at a Jewish resort in the Catskills in the 1970s. I knew nothing of the Jewish culture and less about the world, yet I was trying to make it on my own. When I look back, I realize that I must have been out of my mind taking the risks I did but fearless. These are the qualities that I try to instill in the main character, Samantha.

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