Strangers Tend to Tell me Things : : a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

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Call Number: 921 Dickinson, Amy, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Dickinson, Amy
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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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.
"The voice behind America's most popular advice column "Ask Amy" and the New York Times best-selling author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville--returns with her follow-up memoir of family, second chances and finding love,"--NoveList.

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memoir submitted by camelsamba on June 20, 2018, 9:38pm This memoir explores typical themes: family, childhood and coming of age, parenting, romance, death, grief. Through it all Amy spotlights the people and places that combine to provide a sense of home. The tone is conversational. Three aspects that distinguish it from _The Mighty Queens of Freeville_ (her other memoir) are more detail about her childhood, her relationship with her aging mother, and grief after her mother dies. (She also reconciles with her father as he is dying.) I suspect this work will resonate deeply with those who have had their own experiences with grief, especially after the death of a parent.

I admire (perhaps envy?) the close-knit nature of her extended family on her mother's side, her 2nd husband's family, the town they live in. While we don't live close to relatives or in a small town, we have developed a nexus of neighbors and friends. Even so, I often yearn for a tighter community such as the one depicted in her writings – even though I know they have flaws of their own (because during the 7 years we did live in a tiny town, we were always the outsiders!).

The single photo in this book is the only photo she has of her father with the family. With such a focus on community, I'm surprised she didn't include more photos from over the years.

An easy read submitted by Zekicmom on July 23, 2020, 4:38pm I enjoyed Amy Dickinson's memoir. It's full of thoughtful honesty and humor.