Frozen Dinners: A Memoir of a Fractured Family

Winner of 2019 Distinguished Favorite for Memoir from Independent Press Award Program. 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.
"Full of luscious details, clear-eyed compassion, and enduring joy..." - Kim Barnes, Author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Memoir,
"This tell-all memoir will resonate with anyone who has endured family dysfunction." - Joely Fisher, Author of "Growing Up Fisher"
"Affecting and sometimes poetic, "Frozen Dinners" paints a complex portrait of a twentieth-century Idaho family and its business empire." - Foreword Clarion Reviews