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Frozen Dinners by Elaine Ambrose
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Frozen Dinners

A Memoir of a Fractured Family

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Narrator Elaine Ambrose

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Length 6 hours 27 minutes
Language English
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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.

Elaine Ambrose is the award-winning, bestselling author of eight books, including Frozen Dinners, Midlife Cabernet, and Midlife Happy Hour. Ambrose's award-winning syndicated blog posts are published on several websites, and one humorous post became one of the most-read posts in the history of The Huffington Post. Her blog posts won two humor writing awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. An avid traveler, Elaine has visited thirty-two countries around the world. Elaine lives with her patient husband in Eagle, Idaho.

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"Full of luscious details, clear-eyed compassion, and enduring joy..." --- Kim Barnes, Author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Memoir Expand reviews
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