Book description
Amy Dickinson's advice column, 'Ask Amy', appears daily in more than
150 newspapers across the USA, read by more than 22 million readers.
Her motto is 'I make the mistakes so you don't have to'.
In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson takes those
mistakes and spins them into a remarkable story. This is the tale of
Amy and her daughter and the women in her family who helped raise them
after Amy's husband abruptly left. It is a story of frequent failures
and surprising successes, as Amy starts and loses careers, bumbles
through blind dates and adult education classes, travels across
country with her daughter and their giant tabby cat, and tries to come
to terms with the family's aptitude for 'dorkitude'. Though they live
in London, D. C., and Chicago, all roads lead them back to her
original hometown of Freeville (pop. 458), a tiny upstate village
where Amy's family has cultivated the land, tended chickens, and built
houses and sheds for over 200 years. Most important though, her family
has made more family there, and they all still live in a ten-house
radius of each other. With kindness and razor-sharp wit, they welcome
Amy and her daughter back weekend after weekend, summer after summer,
offering a moving testament to the many women who have led small lives
of great consequence in a tiny place.
