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,
Francie- former Queen of the Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, Corn Festival-
surrenders to a mortally wounded transmission.
It doesn't take long to realize that thirty-three-year-old Francie is out
of money and in no hurry to let go of her daughter, so the two unpack
indefinitely. Amy finds work at a funeral home, a place where her
unlikely Christian faith can work itself out among the town's young
and old, geeks and jocks, hippies and clergy alike.
Trying not to judge her mom's serial boyfriend escapades, Amy ends up
in a tragic love triangle herself which gives both mother and daughter
the chance to do some real growing up. But in a surprise twist, their
road to healing still has many miles to go in 2008 as they travel back to
Sleepy Eye in that old '58 coupe.
"The Queen of Sleepy Eye is written with exquisite depth of character . . . a fantastic story."
--Hannah Alexander, author of the Hideaway series
