Goodreads asked Lee Patton:

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

Lee Patton I actually wrote the first draft of My Aim Is True when I wasn't much older than the narrator, Guy, who's 17. I was in my early twenties and fresh from living in San Francisco and the suburban Diablo Valley; it was so long ago that I can't really remember what drove me to the idea, exactly, except that I felt that old "cognitive dissonance" about the faddish behavior, mysticism, and narcissism of the times and wanted to explore the predicament of a kid who wanted to be genuine and down to earth in that crazy-making atmosphere.

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