Goodreads asked Hannah VanderHart:

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

Hannah VanderHart This is an interesting question because it makes it sound like writing a book comes from one thing, when ideas actually take years and many forms of input, conversations with others, personal growth, etc. It's taken my life to write this book, as I'm sure many authors feel. There is, however, a poem that the book really formed around: "Confederate Statues Are Falling This Morning," a poem about a fight I had with my mother when activists pulled down the confederate soldiers statue in front of the Old Durham courthouse. That poem was originally the title of the book and the opening poem--it gathered the other poems to it, and made me go deeper into family history.

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