Glimpsing Through Threads

<p><strong>* Recipient of the 2025 First-Place Author Zone Award for Historical Fiction *</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> Mothers Daughters Sisters-Connections </strong></p><p> <strong>Come peek through the loosely woven threads of this multigenerational family. Get to know them as they whisper through time.</strong></p><p> Have you ever wondered about those who came before us the people who shared our blood? Ancestral glimpses-seen through an old picture perhaps felt through a dream or maybe even a moment of déjà vu. We didn't know our ancestors. But do we somehow? Are they with us still? Have you ever wondered-what did they laugh about cry about? What gave them strength?</p><p> Come step through time with the women of Glimpsing Through Threads and join their families as they navigate their way through history. Their footsteps begin in Ireland in 1855 as famine forces this tale's matriarch to flee. She and her family follow the call of the coal mines and steel mills in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania that promised opportunities for a better life. As the decades roll by and the family grows learn how each generation's women command a distinct place in time that's their own-or is it?</p><p> Historical menaces and blessings shape each of the characters' lives as they sort their way through the lot they've been given. Look through the eyes and feel through the hearts for example of the characters who lived through the turn of the 20th century. A time when women were judged and governed by a society abundant with religious restraints and ceaseless family expectations.</p><p> Where could they work how should they behave whom should they love?</p><p> Join them as they traverse their way through it with humor with tears and with grit. While the random mingling of familiar apparitions Celtic superstitions and eerie premonitions may sometimes interfere with their individual coping skills all of the women manage to make their way through. </p><p> As the narrative moves forward the characters personally experience Pittsburgh's Industrial Revolution the Spanish flu of 1918 Women's Suffrage the passage of the 19th Amendment Prohibition the Depression World War I World War II the Korean War the counterculture of the 1960s decade and finally the 1970s Me Decade. Their responses to the events that dropped into their laps varied greatly exposing their strengths weaknesses joys and heartaches. Opinions expressions humor and language change and evolve with time as the family grows and ages into the 1970s. But through it all a sense of connection to both the future and the past hints at the ultimate question...</p><p> Are we all caught within the confines of our own time? Or is the essence of our being somehow connected to those who came before and those who are yet to come?</p>