Goodreads asked Thea Constantine:

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

Thea Constantine With Stumptown, I’d been doing a column for Street Roots- Portland’s version of The Big Issue, a paper where most of the proceeds go to the homeless vendors. It got me thinking about all the people who we’ve deemed 2nd class citizens. How mental illness, poverty, unemployment or homelessness are now dismissed as being a fault -a moral or spiritual failing. And how they’re also secondary characters in most literature as well. And I wanted to see what it would be like to write a book about people who survive moment to moment - day to day.

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