is the memoir of Amy Dickinson, the writer selected to replace Ann Landers. This book is her story to some degree. It's by no means a biography but more of stories of her life. Each chapter is written around a theme and usually shares multiple small stories and one major one along the theme that ties them all together.While the subtitle declares the book to be about "A Mother, A Daughter, and the Town that Raised them", I really wanted more of "the town that raised them". I could see the stories as they were being woven together into a great movie, and I could also see someone coming along and fleshing out the stories of the smaller characters to make for a great little television series.
Amy comes from a long line of strong women in a small town. Women, who for many generations have been used to going it alone. To the extent that the one aunt she has who got married and stayed married to her death was seen as an anomaly. After years of marriage, Amy found herself returning back home to Freeville, a single mother. By what seems like happenstance, but is closer to reality than what the movies want us to believe, Amy stumbles from one job to another and simply by knowing the right person gets her foot in the door to apply for the job as the countries most read advice columnist. If knowing the right person was what got her foot in the door, giving the right answers was what got her the right job. Amy shares the ups and downs of her life and what we learn through it is that she's just a normal woman from a small town, with lots of common sense that she inherited from all the other women in her life.
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