Indie Reads Aloud with Tom Huggler and "The Woman She Left Behind"
- Diana Kathryn
- May 20
- 2 min read
Indie Reads Aloud Radio
Episode # 312
The Woman She Left Behind
Written by Tom Huggler
In the spring of 1862, widowed Rachel Barnum leaves three children in Michigan with her farm’s hired man to embark on either a fool’s errand or a hero’s journey. She will stop at nothing to find her son Dwight, a Union soldier dying days away on a Missouri battlefield. Mounting obstacles include an imposing Rebel force entrenched on a Mississippi River island. Rachel fears her chances of finding Dwight in time to save him are shrinking each day she’s gone from her ten-year-old twin girls and another son, 16, who can’t abide the hired hand. With time running out, Rachel faces an agonizing decision: abandon her firstborn to the ravages of war and go back to family and the man she loves? Or fight on against all odds?
This untold biographical fiction is based on true events.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tom Huggler is a fulltime freelance writer and author of 20 nonfiction books and two novels.
A former high school English teacher with B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan, Tom turned in his gradebooks for a reporter's notebook in 1982. The former president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America has written articles for more than 100 publications and currently pens columns in each issue of WOODS-N-WATER NEWS ("Michigan Meanders") and SHOOTING SPORTSMAN ("To the Point").
Many of his nonfiction books have become collectible, including GROUSE OF NORTH AMERICA and A FALL OF WOODCOCK. His six-book FISH MICHIGAN series of mapped guides to the state's best public-access fishing locations sold more than a quarter-million copies and are now out of print.
Huggler's first book was a conservation novel for young readers. WESTWIND WOODS (Michigan United Conservation Clubs, 1978) was written for his eighth-grade English students and went on to sell 15,000 copies. Tom has returned to fiction writing in his later years.
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