The Mighty Queens
of Freeville
Amy Dickinson, or “Ask Amy,” as her syndicated column is
known has written a memoir about her life in a small town and the extended
family that raised her and her daughter.
She starts from the dissolution of her marriage and chronicles the
circumstances that kept returning her and her daughter to Freeville. She includes some of her life’s stellar
moments, as well as some of the not-so-stellar ones also. The reoccurring theme in her book is the
importance of her family and her daughter.
Amy writes with understated humor and empathy. She speaks as an ordinary mother, sister,
daughter, niece and aunt. Her
transparency easily allowed me to identify with her. Anyone who respects the importance of family
will enjoy this book. Anyone who is a
mother or a daughter will give an inaudible sigh of relief seeing that despite
our foibles and failures, family buoys us up and give us hope to go on. I discovered this book at our local dollar
store and certainly got more than one dollar of enjoyment from it and I think
you will, too.
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