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  • Frozen Dinners

  • A Memoir of a Fractured Family
  • By: Elaine Ambrose
  • Narrated by: Elaine Ambrose
  • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Frozen Dinners

By: Elaine Ambrose
Narrated by: Elaine Ambrose
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Publisher's summary

With the advent of TV dinners in the 1950s, an intense and entrepreneurial father rises from poverty to build a multi-million-dollar trucking empire hauling frozen food throughout the Northwest. His determination, combined with generosity and strict punishment, leaves his family in a state of emotional paralysis. After his untimely death, his survivors implode in a maelstrom of brutal courtroom drama, illness, and dementia. The estate and family are destroyed.

Frozen Dinners is the story of Elaine Ambrose, who spends half a century searching for love and warmth beyond the contaminated legacy of her fractured family.

©2018 Elaine Ambrose (P)2019 Tantor

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"Full of luscious details, clear-eyed compassion, and enduring joy...." (Kim Barnes, author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Memoir)

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Interesting local history

With a husband and stepson who both worked a short time for MX, this answered the question of what happened to this well known regional trucking firm.

The author did an amazing job of reading what was obviously a deeply emotional personal story. I was impressed by her personal growth and development of respect for her parents' achievements, but at the same time saddened by the common thread of inheritance discord among family members.

I can understand why such a memoir would take more than two decades to write. The chronology became a bit confusing in a couple places where she jumped ahead in time with commentary about a long term result. Overall, the author exhibited amazingly strong control over her emotions while injecting her passion for her family's story.

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