A Year of Thanksgivings: A Memoir - Hardcoverby Sallie Read Hicks (Author), Joseph N. Davis (With) Longer description here. In A Year of Thanksgivings, Sallie Hicks shares with her readers seven generations of the Hicks and Read families as she has known them for almost ninety years. In stories that span from her early childhood memories to encounters with life's heartbreaking challenges, Sallie tells how, despite significant visual impairment, she has navigated her life with remarkable