I was recently approached by Hyperion Books to review the new book The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter, and The Town that Raised Them.
In a twist of irony for a book about mothers and daughters, when I wasn’t able to find the time to read the book, I knew which of my favorite bookworms to go to. Yes, I went to the woman who watched each of my children the moment they were born, the woman who placed the veil on my head on my wedding day, the woman who picked out prom dresses with me, kissed boo boos when I fell, and even took a C-section scar willingly to help bring me into the world. Yes, my dear, dependable, book loving Mom.
So, here, in her blog debut, is my Mom’s take on this book…
Despite the fact that “Dear Amy” has 22 million readers, I had not heard of her before reading her book The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them
Amy Dickinson had no formal training to earn that job other than the wit and wisdom of life’s lessons she learned along the way being raised by a matriarchal society. As she has written, she “took the long way home” to life’s answers. For some reason, the men always leave in this extended family, leaving the women to raise each other. Her mother was the youngest of four sisters, she is the youngest of three sisters, and she is raising a daughter herself. She invites you into her world writing, “These are the women of my world – The Mighty Queens of Freeville – who have lived small lives of great consequence in the tiny place we call home.”
Amy is a down-to-earth person who thrives in her self-described dorkitude and is happy that she has passed this on to her daughter.
No matter where she moves around the world the small town of Freeville is always home and she often ends up back there. She decided most of her life that it was fine to live without a man and stumbles through her path reinforcing that view. She is funny, natural and self sufficient. The book was a nice read and I do recommend it.
Thanks for having my back and taking care of this for me, Mom! I look forward to having some downtime (sometime in my life, right?) and sitting down with this book!
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from Hyperion Publishing that I was able to keep. I was not compensated in any other way for this review.
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