My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Catherine W Rouhana, author of the book When the Fudge Trees Bloom. Cathy grew up in the ’50s and ‘60s in a three-bedroom row house in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the second of ten children, seven girls, and three boys. Yikes! You might say. Somewhat cramped? Well, yes, in retrospect. But children can always find a cubby hide-away to escape the chaos, (and maybe the chores). In the days before social media and even the days of the infancy of television, she and her siblings escaped into books. They were voracious readers and fought over the treasures brought home from a three-mile hike to the nearest library. Of course, the hiker had first dibs, but the rest was up for grabs.

Falling Through the New World is the second book this month I read by Cynthia Reeves. It is a novel told in 14 separate stories, that when read together, tell the tale of three generations of an Italian family, starting in WWI in Italy and ending in modern-day United States.

I love how Cynthia weaves the tales and shows us the connections. Mother-daughter relationships, the Catholic faith, health, sewing, and more, show up again and again, pulling together 100 years of family.

Although these are just ordinary people trying their best to live their lives, if we allow ourselves to look deeply, we will see ourselves among the pages, and learn, if nothing else, that we all have a story to tell.

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My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Barbara Dullaghan, author of the book, Secrets in the Hollow. Barbara Dullaghan grew up in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown and is enthralled with the magic and energy of the towns. She is published in gifted education with Kendall Hunt and Prufrock Press and her short stories and poetry can be found in three anthologies. She and her husband, Jack, now live in coastal North Carolina and love spending time at the beach with their three children, spouses, and six energetic grandchildren.