Goodreads asked Eva Moon:

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

Eva Moon Not long ago I learned that I have the BRCA1 genetic mutation that gives me an 87% chance of breast cancer and 55% chance of ovarian cancer. I had a preventive double mastectomy and hysterectomy immediately. I'm grateful for the chance to prevent cancer, but I hardly recognized myself anymore. Pinocchio started to fascinate me because he also went through a radical physical transformation. His was wished for, but wishes can be tricky. We all assume he lived happily ever after, but did he? Did he struggle to acclimate to this new body? Did he suffer from Impostor Syndrome, knowing he looked like a normal person, but wasn't really like others? I wanted to explore this side of his story and setting it in the years between the world wars felt relevant to our own times - a time of rapidly growing extreme division and political strife.

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