AVERILL PARK, N.Y. -- The road to this point has been long and zigzagging for Tena Waldron. Yearning to discover more about her father, Ben Waldron, who died when she was very young, Tena is drawn into an enigmatic journey that leads her to the small Adirondack Mountain town of North Creek, N.Y. Here, Tena expected to find answers, but in Gloria Waldron Hukle's mysterious new tale, THE DIARY OF A NORTHERN MOON, it appears that the harder Tena tries to piece together the puzzle of her father's life, less and less seems to fit.  

Recently released worldwide, Ms. Hukle's second novel within a planned series of three will premiere in the Albany, N.Y. Capitol District region November 15th. In the authors latest account, the action begins in l956, in front of an upstate New York morgue, as Bertha Waldron braces herself to identify the body of her estranged second husband, Ben, who disappeared a year before. Bertha manages the strength to do what she must, and as she sits beside Ben's corpse and examines his personal possessions, she recalls a life once sweet with tender intimacies.   

Fast-forwarding to l976, Hukle shifts the narrative toward Ben and Bertha's daughter, Tena.  Only a child during the painful time around her father's death, Tena is now a successful 26-year old advertising executive.  She is disturbed, however, by troubling dreams that she believes hold answers to her father's past. When a small package with no return address is left on her stoop, its contents become the catalyst for her journey to North Creek, where she meets George MacArthur, her father's childhood friend. Although she is at first delighted by the prospect of learning more about the father she barely knew, George quickly becomes elusive, and Tena is confused by the cool behavior shown by him and his wife, Lillian.  As the puzzle becomes more and more jumbled, Tena discovers that in this quiet, northern New York community, nothing is as it seems.  The confusing pieces leave Tena-and readers-with one persisting question: Who exactly was Ben Waldron?   

Gloria Waldron Hukle is a native and resident of New York State. The author is an llth generation descendent of Resolved Waldron, an immigrant to l7th Century New Amsterdam-now New York City-and central character within her first novel, Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple. Further information visit: www.gloriawaldronhukle.name     

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