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The Queen of Sleepy Eye
by
Patti Hill
En route to college in the summer of 1975, sensible seventeen-year-old Amy gets stuck in smalltown Colorado when the 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe driven by her insufferable tiara-toting mom, FrancieCamy Tang, author of Only Uni and Single Sashimi
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
September 1st 2008
by B&H Publishing Group
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The Queen of Sleepy Eye begins with Amy and her mother searching for her mom’s 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe. Amy’s mom had sold the car many years before. In the course of trying to find the car Amy’s mother reveals that she had stolen the car from Amy’s father. The problem though is that her mother also reveals that Amy’s father is not dead like Amy has been told all of her life. But he is alive and well still living in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. Her mother is bent on returning the car to A...more
It was the summer of 1975.
Maria Amelia Casimiro Monterio “Amy” for short and her mother Francie, a former beauty queen of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota decide to take a road trip. Amy thought they were heading to sunny Santa Barbara, California. Boy was she ever in for a surprise.
With not much luggage or a care in the world. Amy and her mother head for the open road in a 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sport Coupe Jubilee in mint condition. The car looked like it had just come off the ...more
Maria Amelia Casimiro Monterio “Amy” for short and her mother Francie, a former beauty queen of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota decide to take a road trip. Amy thought they were heading to sunny Santa Barbara, California. Boy was she ever in for a surprise.
With not much luggage or a care in the world. Amy and her mother head for the open road in a 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sport Coupe Jubilee in mint condition. The car looked like it had just come off the ...more
The theme of this memorable novel is that sometimes life teaches you lessons through unexpected detours. Amy tells us her story, staring from when she was a teenager determined to get to California and attend college. She is utterly frustrated when their car breaks down and strands them in a small Colorado town--most especially with her mother who doesn't seem to be in any hurry to leave. The find refuge--and work--at the local funeral parlor and despite herself Amy finds herself forming connect...more
The Queen of Sleepy Eye.Summer Reading Challenge.5 point task,5.4 task
S U M M E R.It's the summer of 1975, and sensible seventeen-year-old Amy Monteiro longs for the freedom of college life in California.But when her mom's beloved 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe surrenders to a mortally wounded transmission in Colorado, it doesn't take long for Amy to realize that her insufferable,tiara toting mom, Francie-former queen of the Sleepy Eye Corn Festivalis out of money and in no hurry to...more
S U M M E R.It's the summer of 1975, and sensible seventeen-year-old Amy Monteiro longs for the freedom of college life in California.But when her mom's beloved 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe surrenders to a mortally wounded transmission in Colorado, it doesn't take long for Amy to realize that her insufferable,tiara toting mom, Francie-former queen of the Sleepy Eye Corn Festivalis out of money and in no hurry to...more
This was such a good book! I read it in two long sittings and didn't want it to end. A sad but hysterically funny story of a young girl, her mother who is not exactly mommy of the year but not exactly mommy dearest, either and a Pontiac. Amy and her mother leave Sleepy Eye, Illinois on a road trip to take Amy to college in California. Amy is terribly carsick and, when she wakes up from some dramamine that mom has given her, they are headed EAST. The Po0ntiac's transmissin gives up the ghost...more
Another book having to do with funeral homes. I had no idea about this one being so.
The beginning of the book is found hard to follow but once you get the hang of it, it becomes somewhat easier to adjust to the different time periods.
Amy's mother is very self-centered and uses people to her advantage. Especially Amy which she can do with ease since Amy is her obedient daughter. Amy and her mother are driving to California so that Amy can attend college there. Her ...more
The beginning of the book is found hard to follow but once you get the hang of it, it becomes somewhat easier to adjust to the different time periods.
Amy's mother is very self-centered and uses people to her advantage. Especially Amy which she can do with ease since Amy is her obedient daughter. Amy and her mother are driving to California so that Amy can attend college there. Her ...more
slow beginning - but in true Patti Hill style - she teaches some powerful lessons! Loved the discussion of the woman at the well... Why was she at the well - what kind of a woman she was - and the fact that Jesus still sought her out! She didn't hesitate - she accepted grace with her arms wide open! Couple other great parts that spoke to my heart in a beautiful way!
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Patti HIll is a new author to me. I really enjoyed her style and the way she weaved "real" life thoughts and feelings and experiences with faith and a relationship with Christ. Her writing is similar in style to Lisa Samson's which is not preachy or contrived, but more earthy and real.
eh.. skipped half of it.. dont know what it is about 'christian lit' but it just doesnt it do it for me...and its NOT like i like reading 'throbbing member' books either... dont know.. just eh
Monica
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I tried reading it but I just couldnt get into it. I didnt completely give up on it, I plan on finishing it in the near future. But just not now :D
I like this book, but sometimes it seemed to drag a little. Over all a decent book.
Liked it all right to begin with, but it grew on me as I read. Loved it!
Great book when you want something a littel deeper
Kept thinking that it would get better. Quick summer read.
Slow start...but then I couldn't put it down!
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After years of raising children and then joyfully teaching elementary school, Patti finally took her long-ago college English professor’s advice ("You should be a writer") and fulfilled the dream of having her first novel published to wide acclaim in 2005.
She now writes full time and loves connecting with readers via her web site and on Twitter.
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She now writes full time and loves connecting with readers via her web site and on Twitter.
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