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Frozen Dinners

A Memoir of a Fractured Family

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Frozen Dinners

By: Elaine Ambrose
Narrated by: Elaine Ambrose
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About this listen

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 Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships Women Memoir

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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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Well you always get one in the family whose greed holds no bounds. Really good listen. You’ll enjoy this if you’re into family dilemmas

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