Goodreads asked Alexander Wolff:

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

Alexander Wolff For years I'd nursed the idea of telling the family saga at the heart of ENDPAPERS. But real life interceded--a day job, raising kids. And then, after taking a buyout from Sports Illustrated after the 2016 Olympics, my wife and I looked at each other, and we looked at our teenage kids (who after a childhood in small-town Vermont were definitely up for an adventure), and realized we couldn't NOT take the plunge. So we moved to Berlin for a year--and it was like going over the falls. Fortunately I'd been taken notes and gathering string for more than 20 years.

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