Goodreads asked Paula Whyman:

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

Paula Whyman I was visiting a class at The Young Women's Leadership School, a high school in East Harlem, to talk about my story "Driver's Education." The students and the teacher said they wanted to read more about the girl in that story. That's what planted the seed. But it was years before I decided to write it, and even longer before I knew it was going to be a whole book that followed the same character for the next 35 years of her life.

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