Goodreads asked Jan Surasky:

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

Jan Surasky I got the idea for Back to Jerusalem from driving through the beautiful land around Penn Yan and Jerusalem, New York, both towns along the southern tier which were in the second poorest county of the state, but where the land was so very beautiful and where many Mennonites had settled along with the "English" to farm the land. I realized that although most were economically poor they were so very rich in the beauty of the land, a contrast that I found interesting.

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