Goodreads asked Mona Rodriguez:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Mona Rodriguez Definitely the 1920s. It was a decade of empowerment for women and the beginning of Modern America. Music, dancing, and clothing was transformed. Prohibition was alive and well and the mafia was a real presence. It was a time for celebration and the entire country joined the party. I would dance the nights away.

“Americans were embracing the opportunities and reaping the benefits from the country’s postwar economic growth, and it was a cause for celebration. The decade was being hailed as the Roaring Twenties, and the mentality of the youth was changing with the times. The rising workforce was the children of immigrants who had been raised in America and who were much more comfortable within its borders than their parents. More and more of them owned automobiles, and the mobility opened their worlds—making the possibilities endless. They had extra cash in their pockets, and they were feeling their oats, they even dressed as if they were living the dream. They had grown up in the land of the free, and to them, it meant free spirited.” (Forty Years In A Day, page 217)

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