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Perfectly Human: A Memoir — Selected Moments of My Life
This blunt, sometimes comical, sometimes confessional collection of stories tells of the life experiences that shaped Fran Fredricks. From childhood naivete, such as eating gum off sidewalks, to learning how to wear a strapless bra in early puberty. Discovering rebellion and escapism through the thrill of shoplifting and intentional fainting in her teens, to finding love and quitting smoking in her twenties. The joys and fears of motherhood in her thirties, to coping with aging friends, and dealing with her own bout of cancer treatment. These and other moments are shared in this book about living the oxymoron of being Perfectly Human.
Fran Fredricks has been a writer since she learned to address an envelope in second grade and graduated to story writing in third grade. She went on to study journalism, writing for newspaper and radio, and made a better living in technical writing. Active in her writing community in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been a member of the Saint Charles Writers Group, the Batavia Library Writers Workshop, and Writers Anonymous of Fox Valley. Her works have been published in these literary groups’ collections, and the group novel Don’t Die Mr. Opal. Oklahoma Needs You. Fran also authored a children’s book Dudley Finds a Friend.
Fran Fredricks has been a writer since she learned to address an envelope in second grade and graduated to story writing in third grade. She went on to study journalism, writing for newspaper and radio, and made a better living in technical writing. Active in her writing community in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been a member of the Saint Charles Writers Group, the Batavia Library Writers Workshop, and Writers Anonymous of Fox Valley. Her works have been published in these literary groups’ collections, and the group novel Don’t Die Mr. Opal. Oklahoma Needs You. Fran also authored a children’s book Dudley Finds a Friend.
201 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2025
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April 11, 2025
This is a great book about growing up in the Midwest, going to college and earning a graduate degree in journalism, managing a career, raising children, and surviving cancer. An inspiring and heartwarming memoir.
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