The Write Path #30 - A Journey to "Fox Creek," with Author M.E. Torrey!!!

Today we have with us author M. E. Torrey, who has penned an award-winning, critically-acclaimed historical novel that poignantly shows the human toll of black slavery on society. Michele worked for twenty years as an writer for children before turning her talents to adults. M. E. Torrey's Fox Creek, a riveting work of literary fiction, delivers a haunting new look at the Antebellum South. The acclaimed children's book author makes her debut in adult fiction with Fox Creek, a sweeping and unflinching historical novel that confronts a brutal and fraught era in our nation’s violent history.Fox Creek follows a cast of unforgettable characters, enslaved and enslaver alike, whose intertwined fates reveal the staggering contradictions of life in the 19th-century South. Torrey, who has spent years researching plantation records, slave narratives, and diaries of both the oppressed and the oppressors, renders a narrative that is at once harrowing, compassionate, and morally urgent. By portraying slave owners not as caricatures but as ordinary people who justified extraordinary harm, she forces readers to ask: How do ordinary people blind themselves to cruelty?  Listen now!Her Website:  https://www.metorrey.com/Welcome to the Write Path Podcast, where being an author, an actual author, still matters. This isn't the place for the Chat GPT experts or the AI buffs to churn out soulless content with no heart.  This is the place where authors share their journeys, explore their creativity, examine the "Why?" behind it all and come together to celebrate each other. This is the podcast for authors, about authors, and by an author, where the truth still counts and words still have power. Join Us!  You have a story to tell!Contact us on all our social media platforms and email us at [email protected]  This is the place where authors know that every page... is a step forward. Let's move forward together, let's move forward today. Listen now.