Flint Memorial Library (North Reading)

Strangers tend to tell me things, a memoir of love, loss, and coming home, by Amy Dickinson

eng

individual biography

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non fiction

Strangers tend to tell me things

974487495

by Amy Dickinson

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs

a memoir of love, loss, and coming home

In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville --America's most popular advice columnist, -Ask Amy, - shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love. By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motivation that has fueled her calling. Through a series of linked essays, this moving narrative picks up where her earlier memoir left off. Exploring central themes of romance, death, parenting, self-care, and spiritual awakening, this touching and heartfelt homage speaks to all who have faced challenges in the wake of life's twists and turns. From finding love in middle-age to her storied experience with stepparenting to overcoming disordered eating to her final moments spent with her late mother, Dickinson's trademark humorous tone delivers punch and wit that will empower, entertain, and heal

Introduction: Welcome to Freeville -- We played with matches -- Romance : a brief history -- Dating blindly -- Night of the chipmunk hands -- Journeys end in lovers meeting -- Meeting Mr. Darcy -- The antidote for longing -- Let me get my puppets -- Life renovation offer -- The grenade in the kitchen -- Paying the piper -- We did -- The powdered wife -- Real housewives -- All the single ladies -- What the dog did -- We abide -- Heroic measures -- The fallacy of closure -- The rising tide of things -- Does it spark joy? -- Imperfect pitch -- Counting sheep -- How to use a saw -- Next of kin -- Strangers tend to tell me things -- Mother's Day