A Goodreads user asked Beem Weeks:

Beem I love reading your Q&As. And Jazz Baby was quite a different reading experience for me. Did you have ties to that era through ancestry?

Beem Weeks Hi, Shirley. I did. My grandparents were young during that era. My grandmother was born and raised in Mississippi. My grandfather was born in Arkansas. They both had their stories from the era. Grandpa was older than Grandma. He ran bootleg whiskey made from his own whiskey still. He just had so many great stories from the 1920s and 1930s, before he moved the family north to Michigan. I loved sitting with them, listening to how things used to be. Thank you for your question.

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