In our July/August 2016 issue, reviewer Betty Carter asks author Jennifer L.
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In our July/August 2016 issue, reviewer Betty Carter asks author Jennifer L. Holm about the inspiration for her new novel
Full of Beans.
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Betty Carter: You have a knack of making a story so time-specific (the Great Depression in
Full of Beans, for example), yet so universal in theme. What inspires you first, the setting or the human condition?
Jennifer L. Holm: Definitely the human condition. For
Full of Beans, I had a photo stuck in my head from when I was doing research for
Turtle in Paradise. It was of a little lane in Key West simply
towering with huge piles of rotting garbage. The town couldn’t afford to pay trash collectors, and this was the obvious result. I couldn’t help but wonder what a kid would think about that garbage (or that smell).
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