Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

A Novel

De: Amy Hill Hearth

Narrado por: Amy Hill Hearth

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Hill Hearth, “a rollicking, provocative” (Ruth Pennebaker, author of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough) debut novel about a transplanted wife and mother from Boston who shakes up her new home in Florida during the early 1960s.

When she and her family move from Boston to a small, sleepy town in Florida in the early 1960s, Jackie Hart has no idea she is about to turn her new home upside down. Middle-aged and restless, Jackie is determined to find some excitement in her new town by accepting an opportunity to host a local radio show where she creates a mysterious, late-night persona, “Miss Dreamsville.” She also launches a reading group—the Collier County Women’s Literary Society—sending the conservative and racially segregated town into uproar. The only townspeople who venture to join are regarded as outsiders at best—a young gay man, a divorced woman, a poet, and a young black woman who dreams of going to college.

Evocative, moving, and inspired by a real person, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society will touch the heart of anyone and everyone who has ever felt like an outsider longing to fit in.

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I read for escapism, and prefer stories without all of the problems in the world. I would have enjoyed hearing about the other things in life, rather than just nuggets of racism and genderism and the difficult parts of life. that's all there was in this book...just constant problems and issues. there is so much more to life, and I would have enjoyed hearing about that. Old Florida was a fascinating time and people seem to only want to focus on the bad parts.