Goodreads asked Abigail R. Shaffer:

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

Abigail R. Shaffer First, as with much in my writing life, the inspiration grew from nature and the sensory. I was living in Little Rock, and it was a classic, early summer gully washer: rain coming down in buckets, humid and close, vegetal. I sat on my screened-in porch and watched rivulets of water sluice off the eaves and onto the bricks of the porch floor. Slowly, I began to see this sluicing rain from the eyes of a character, to experience the endless rain through her, and the story was born.

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