Joan Hicks Boone is an author and speaker from Burnsville, Minnesota. Joan is a former registered nurse who practiced in a variety of settings in the Twin Cities area for over 32 years. In her memoir, The Best Girl, Joan takes readers through the experience of growing up in a family struggling with alcoholism, domestic violence, neglect, and other dysfunctions. Throughout the book, readers will see and feel what Joan saw and felt as a toddler, young child and adolescent-and how, through it all, she holds out hope that by being The Best Girl, she can make her father be healed and her mother smile. Joan is currently working on her second book, The Choicemaker, a sequel to The Best Girl. For more information about Joan, visit her website at
www.joanhicksboone.com.
