Goodreads asked Allison M. Dickson:

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

Allison M. Dickson The book I just finished, a southern Gothic suspense novel called "Kudzu," came to me when my mother, who grew up in Georgia, told me about the huge, thick growths of those invasive vines down there. I started thinking about it metaphorically, about how it binds things together and then consumes them. In many ways, this made me think of family secrets and how they operate in much the same way. The story grew from there.

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