Goodreads asked Paul W. Cohen:

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

Paul W. Cohen In my twenties I lived outside in Wyoming, worked crappy jobs like lawn boy and ranch grunt, and climbed all the peaks in the Tetons. I also lived and worked in Utah and Paris, France. After many years, I realized a similar, frightening presence united all these places in my memory. The presence was not defined, but the feeling it expressed was. So I wrote the novel to define that presence. Its name is Benny, and the book is called, The Sleeping Indian.

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