The Mighty Queens of Freeville

Dickinson took over the Chicago Tribune advice column that Ann Landers had made famous, and this is the memoir behind the advice. Divorced and raising a daughter alone, she went back to Freeville, the small New York town where the women of her family have stayed for generations, mostly without husbands and entirely without self-pity. Funny about single motherhood in a way that does not flinch from what it cost.