Goodreads asked Rachel Louise Snyder:

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

Rachel Louise Snyder On a mountaintop in Vietnam... a friend told me about a mass burglary on the outskirts of Atlanta back in the 80s. Something like half a dozen houses had been robbed in one afternoon. It seemed like excellent fodder for exploring community, idealism, trauma. As a journalist, I've covered a fair number of natural disasters and I've always been struck by how grace and horror coexist in such moments. That's in part what the book explores.

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