The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Story of Surprising Second Chances
by:
Amy Dickinson (author)
Across the county, her "Ask Amy" advice draws 22 million readers, but in her hometown of Freeville, New York, Amy Dickinson receives no special treatment. "I am surrounded," the NPR contributors writes, "by people who are not impressed by me." To Dickinson, this is no great affront; she realizes...
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Across the county, her "Ask Amy" advice draws 22 million readers, but in her hometown of Freeville, New York, Amy Dickinson receives no special treatment. "I am surrounded," the NPR contributors writes, "by people who are not impressed by me." To Dickinson, this is no great affront; she realizes that "the mighty queens of Freeville" have stored up barrels of their own wisdom over many hard winters. In this folksy, warmly affectionate memoir, she shares stories about those talkative women, most especially her very memorable mother. A fine gift for a precious parent.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401310127 (1401310125)
ASIN: 1401310125
Publish date: April 13th 2010
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Book Club,
Family,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Comments: When a friend at the Chicago Tribune told Amy Dickinson that the paper was going to launch a new advice column after the death of Ann Landers, and invited her to audition for the job, she was unsure of her qualifications for telling people how to solve their problems. However, when she tho...
I received this book as an Advanced Reader copy and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I don't usually like memoirs, but I found the book very funny and hard to put down. Amy Dickinson was left by her husband when her daughter was very young while they were living in London. She moved back to...
I read the author's column everyday (she took over for Ann Landers) and I thought she was a lot younger and very put together person, so I was surprised by this memoir that tells me she is my age and has a failed relationship. I really enjoyed this one.
This was a good story about an extended family of strong women. Amy Dickinson was left by her husband early in their marriage. Alone with a young baby she had to rearrange her life. She left their home in London and returned to her childhood home in Freeville, NY. She surrounded herself with her fam...
Amy Dickinson comes from a long line of strong women. They had to be. The men in the family seldom stayed around. When Dickinson's husband left her, she and her daughter moved back to Freeville and let the women there help heal the hurts. Dickinson (who became the "replacement" for Ann Landers) te...
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