The Middle Place

by Corrigan, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9781401395575
• ISBN10: 1401395570
• Copyright: 2008-01-08
• Publisher: Hyperion Books

Summary

"An amazing story told with steep honesty. The Middle Place is memoir at its highest form." -Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You and The Real McCoy. For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her--and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.