It is truly a privilege to read this book and learn the story of how somebody can fulfill a dream like this--a dream that so many Americans have, and one that any reader can now vicariously enjoy and grow from. This book is about how Ms. Leskovar wrote her first book, "One Night in a Bad Inn" which was published in 2006. That book was unusual from the start, but "Finding the Bad Inn" is even more so. Ms. Leskovar tells a lot about how she researched the true stories in the first book and how she decided what to include and what to leave out. Much of the book reads like a travel journal (the same kind of thing so many of us do when on a long trip) except that Ms. Leskovar's trips were far more numerous and insightful, and involved all sorts of interesting research. This is an excellent book for anyone who has ever had that fantasy of writing their own family history or "the great American novel"--both of which she's done. The final paragraph is especially meaningful when she reminiscences about the whole book-writing effort quoting David Copperfield "It is vain...to recall the past unless it works some influence upon the present". Clearly this book does so--my thanks to the author for writing it.
Mr. Thomas Kincaid