Goodreads asked Jim McGarrah:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jim McGarrah This is a good question and one that drives much of my writing already. I would say the mystery of random circumstance. How did I end up in certain situations that had different outcomes for me than other people in those same situations. It was something other than choice in many cases. For example, my time in combat in Vietnam. How does an artillery shell go off an kill the person next to you, but leave you without a scratch? Is there a why beyond the how?

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