Goodreads asked Jean Hoefling:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Jean Hoefling I'd travel to the pristine world of early Genesis that I developed in Gold in Havilah because I would love to interact with those biblical characters and pick their brains about why they made the choices they did. For most of them, we are given little to go on in the biblical text, which is both frustrating and fascinating, because then we have the luxury of speculation. In my everybody's-big-sister way, I'd like to think I could have talked Eve out of taking the first bite of forbidden fruit, or persuade Cain not to murder Abel. But then, there wouldn't be much of a story, would there? And the fact is, we humans mostly learn from picking our way through the mess we make of life and gaining some wisdom in the process.

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