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Goodreads asked Aida Edemariam:

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

Aida Edemariam I feel, in some ways, as though I've always had it — or, at least, that it first appeared about twenty years ago as a proper idea, probably when listening to my grandmother, which I loved to do. I wasn't remotely qualified to write it at that point, however, so it just sat there quietly at the back of my mind until finally I was.

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