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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