Goodreads asked Keith Scribner:

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

Keith Scribner I've always loved Joan Didion's essay "On Going Home" and knew that one day I'd write a "going home" novel. Maybe it's my age, but the time finally seemed right to begin a novel with a man returning home, returning to his past and all that he left behind. Over the course of thirty years Cole Callahan has convinced himself that he'd moved on, but he discovers that the ghosts of his past are waiting for him. I'm very interested in how the past is alive in our present (and our future, too). OLD NEWGATE ROAD explores that collapsing of time throughout our lives.

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