By Lisa Goudy
Cassie Stocks’ debut novel was inspired by a classified ad.
“It was a Hi 5 stereo, eight-track record player and the last line of the ad was, ‘Gladys doesn’t dance anymore. She needs
the room to bake’ and I thought, well that’s kind of sad. Why is Gladys giving up dancing for baking?” she said.
“I just never forgot it and then when I started the story with Freida, this young artist, for some reason I remembered this
classified ad and I thought, I should bring this Gladys in and the two of them came together.”
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