Goodreads asked Leslie Spitz-Edson:

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

Leslie Spitz-Edson Several years ago I became a hockey fan. I got very curious about the sport: its players, its culture, its origins. I spent a huge amount of time researching it, and as I did, certain things stuck out to me. In hockey there is this odd, constant teetering between humility and swagger. There is violence and a consequent abiding respect for sheer physical courage. There is a strong moral code, which includes standing up for your teammates, no matter the cost. There is a constant necessity to grapple with fate, with misfortune, with overflows of emotion. The whole mass of ideas fascinated me. And then I just started thinking of characters inhabiting that world, and they started reacting to each other. And the story started to grow.

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