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The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised
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The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them Hardback - 2009

by Amy Dickinson

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Dickinson has made a career out of helping others, through her internationally syndicated advice column "Ask Amy." Readers love her for her honesty and for the fact that her motto is "I make the mistakes so you don't have to." Here, she shares those mistakes and her remarkable story.

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Millions of Americans know and love Amy Dickinson from reading her syndicated advice column "Ask Amy" and from hearing her wit and wisdom weekly on National Public Radio. Amy's audience loves her for her honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is "I make the mistakes so you don't have to." In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson shares those mistakes and her remarkable story. This is the tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.

Though divorce runs through her family like an aggressive chromosome, the women in her life taught her what family is about. They helped her to pick up the pieces when her life fell apart and to reassemble them into something new. 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 the country with her daughter and their giant tabby cat, and tries to come to terms with the family's aptitude for "dorkitude."

They have lived in London, D.C., and Chicago, but all roads lead them back to Amy's hometown of Freeville (pop. 458), a tiny village where Amy's family has tilled and cultivated the land, tended chickens and Holsteins, and built houses and backyard sheds for more than 200 years. Most important, though, her family members all still live within 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.

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  • Title The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them
  • Author Amy Dickinson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, New York
  • Publication date 2009-02-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781401322854 / 1401322859
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.56 x 0.78 in (21.64 x 14.12 x 1.98 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Freeville (N.Y.), Dickinson, Amy - Family
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008026525
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2009, Page 28
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2009, Page 66
  • People Weekly, 02/09/2009, Page 49
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/17/2008, Page 50

About the author

Amy Dickinson is a syndicated advice columnist. She replaced Ann Landers in 2003 and now pens the "Ask Amy" column, which appears in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, including the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Boston Herald, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Washington Post. She currently lives in Chicago.
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