‘To & Fro’ by Leah Hager Cohen
What happens when a novel refuses to follow a straight line - and the author asks her readers to meet her halfway? In this episode of Why Authors Write, host Mary J. Cronin talks with award-winning Leah Hager Cohen about the creative journey that inspired To & Fro, a riveting story of parallel worlds and two heroines who cross the time barrier to meet midstream. Leah describes how she set out to recount a mystical heroine’s timeless journey, but hit a wall of doubt and frustration that forced her to pause writing. Months later, a contemporary heroine called her to tell a different story. Soon these contrasting characters revealed their shared quest and gradually intertwined with one another, meeting in the middle of To & Fro in a moment that feels both mysterious and inevitable.
