In her debut to the literary world, author Hildagarde Spielbauer Brooks brings forth vignettes and memoirs from her life and her family in Living Arrows.

Living Arrows is the true story of the author’s family. It follows the life of a large family of nine boys and six girls born to George and Frances Spielbauer. Filled with hopes and dreams, joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, and successes and failures, this engaging book covers five decades of cherished memories and treasured recollections of the author and her family.

From the simple life of the mid-20’s to the difficult era of the Great Depression, to the harrowing years of World War II, and to the revival period of the succeeding decades; this story gives glimpses of what life had been and how Iowa was during the first half of the twentieth century.

Visit the small picturesque German Catholic community of Guttenberg in northeast Iowa along the Mississippi River, and meet the many dear and delightful personalities who played important roles in their growing up years.  It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child—and in this Spielbauer family saga, you will definitely agree.