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What inspired Anna Quindlen’s novel One True Thing?

Anna Quindlen’s novel One True Thing (1994) was inspired by her experience of dropping out of Barnard College for one year to care of her mother, who was dying of cancer. However, Quindlen has stated that the novel is not purely autobiographical and that its characters are “utterly different” from her and her family members.