Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home [Paperback]

InStrangers Tend to Tell Me Things--her follow-up memoir to theNYTbestsellingThe 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.Amy Dickinson is a syndicated advice columnist. She replaced Ann Landers in 2003 and now pens the Ask Amy column, which appears in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, including theLA Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Boston Herald, theSt. Louis Post Dispatchand theWashington Post. She currently lives in Chicago. Funny, generous,thoughtful, and wonderfully crisp, Dickinson's memoir is one of those talesthat make you proud to be a human--with all of our hopes, failures, and gracesintact. Gillian Flynn, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofGone Girl Dickinson deftly recounts [her story] truthfully but withouttrespassing on family members' privacy...Her warm and generous spiritmakes a reader feel as though they've been invited in for hot cocoa on a cold day. Booklist (starred review) Amy Dickinson has written a simply wonderful memoir.It is courageously honest and touching, but most of all, hilarious andlaugh-out-loud funny. Shlóå