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I'm in Albuquerque. Have traveled in 44 states and lived in 13, but I'm most at home in my hometown. I lived in L.A. for 3 years in my twenties. Technically, only one chapter of this novel is set in Berlin, with four set in Frankfurt or nearby -- in the late 1950s. The story transpires almost entirely in Denver. But there are nine German characters out of about thirty total, six of the Germans come over to Denver, and two of them are major characters.

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Cool- what inspired you to include Germany? There's certainly a lot to dive into here.

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Well, I'm writing five novels that focus on five generations from the Jazz Generation to GenX. The second novel focuses on the World War II Generation, and I realized / concluded a couple years ago that what we can most learn from them now was how Germans put the Third Reich behind them. That's the main theme, and what the characters are still wrestling with in 1958, and so it ends up delving into German culture (and psychology).

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Wow- that‘s a huge project- sounds very cool!

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