Goodreads asked Mihwa Lee:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Mihwa Lee I was a child living with my parents in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. During that time, my father had many Iranian friends who worked for the Iranian Air Force. Some of them disappeared during the revolution, but one particular man, an Air Force pilot, sticks out in my mind. He was the kindest man I had met up to that point. He was young, in his 20s, 6'2", extremely handsome, and made everything fun for us, kids. He was the first playful adult I encountered, and he was from a different culture. He taught me acceptance, tolerance, and how to play. At a time when the revolutionaries were murdering Asians, because we represented Pahlavi and were taking jobs away from them, he taught me not all Iranians were like that. I learned not to generalize. I would love to know what happened to him.

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