Goodreads asked Sara Zarr:

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

Sara Zarr My most recent YA, Goodbye from Nowhere, started when I was listening to a friend tell me about this "cousin camp" she ran every summer for her grandkids. Immediately I stopped listening (sorry, Paula) and started imagining. What happens when those kids become teens? Do they keep all coming to grandma's house in the summer? What if there's a split in the family? A divorce? An....AFFAIR? And I started thinking about affairs, and how sometimes parents have them, and sometimes you're a teen who KNOWS your parent is having an affair and...aaaaaggghhhh, the book was born. (This is not a spoiler; the affair is in the first line of the flap copy!)

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