Goodreads asked Sigrid Brown:

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

Sigrid Brown I got the idea for The Girl in Duluth when I first read about the high number of sex- and human-trafficking rings operating in northern Minnesota (where I grew up) and in particular the connection that runs between communities that are predominantly Native in the area and the shipping ports at Superior and Duluth. It’s part of an old, ugly story. There are always people who will capitalize as long as they possibly can on the chaos that was created when the ties another group spent generations knotting together were disrupted. There’s no task more vexingly difficult than healing an old wound when someone profits by keeping it open.

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