Quotes
"Imagine Hemingway's northern Michigan, except with 'mothers who hand-sewed their kids' clothes, [and] who read used Jane Austen paperbacks,' and you'd have something wonderful, something lush and welcome like THE DRUMMOND GIRLS."—Sue William Silverman, author of The Pat Boone Fan Club
"In a prose style so lively and vivid it jumps off the page, Mardi Link tells the true story of her friends' and her own evolution."—Anne-Marie Oomen, author of Love, Sex, and 4H
"THE DRUMMOND GIRLS is a thoughtful reminder of the enduring and healing power of friendship."—Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life list
Praise for Bootstrapper
"Glints with Link's raw, willful energy. . . . Possesses that rare, elusive, but much sought-after feeling of authenticity."—The New York Times Book Review
"You'll fall in love with Mardi Jo Link's family in this irreverent and heartwarming memoir."—Parade
"A heroic-comic saga of single motherhood, pure stubbornness, and the loyalty of three young sons."—Garrison Keillor
"A country song of a memoir, complete with a broken-down truck named Cookie. It's great fun..."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Link's style of writing is like her style of living-direct, funny, void of self-pity and exceedingly humane."—Kirkus
"Inspirational and funny in the I-might-as-well-laugh-or-I-think-I'll-cry sort of way."—Detroit Free Press
