Goodreads asked Jamie Lisa Forbes:

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

Jamie Lisa Forbes I am going to answer this for my short story collection, The Widow Smalls and Other Stories, which comes out October 20. The stories in the collection were written over my life-time. The title novella, The Widow Smalls, was the last story to be written. Thinking about the characters in my novel, Unbroken, I wanted to create a heroine that was the opposite of those women. I wanted to create a woman stuck on a ranch who hated ranch life and see how I could get her to grow. That was the idea behind The Widow Smalls.

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