Refreshingly different memoir

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	• The Middle Place (Voice) Kelly Corrigan Voice, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 65 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

FANTASTIC!

A friend ordered this book for me for my birthday and I read it on a long airplane trip from the east coast. It is a tender and sometimes funny story about love and family. While I did not relate to it personally, I was unable to put it down and highly recommend it to anyone.

A heart warming memoir

Kelly Corrigan's book, "The Middle Place", takes us to a place that we all pass through. On our life journey, there is a distinct time when we realize that we are between childhood and adulthood. For many, this is the time when we are no longer just the children to our parents, but the parents of our children as well.

For Kelly Corrigan, this distinct time is also when she discovers that she has breast cancer. Her memoir is a heart warming story about family and love. Through her humor and keen observations, she tells of a very special relationship with her father, "Greenie."

"The Middle Place" reminds us of the importance of family and the rewards of laughing along the way.

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Refreshingly different memoir

In a sea of memoirs, Kelly Corrigan's stands out as refreshingly different and positive. Instead of inviting us into a tragic life story fraught with dysfunctional relationships, Kelly tells us about her loving family (specifically her dad) and how they helped her through a difficult bout with cancer. While the drama of her cancer is very real, her story is both delightful and humorous. Beautiful writing engages the reader from the very beginning and keeps the pages turning right through to the end.

Loved it!

I loved this book and recommended it to a bunch of friends. I thought the angle of the years where you are sort of amazed you are an adult but have a full fledged family to prove it, was unique and sooo true. I loved her writing style and humor. Its hard to believe two people had cancer in this book becuase its not depressing to read.

Its a great book.

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"The Middle Place is about calling home. Instinctively. Even when all the paperwork -- a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns -- clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter." For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, a couple of funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. He greeted every day by opening his bedroom window and shouting, "Hello, World!" Suffice it to say, Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. Kelly lives 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 she's abruptly shoved into a coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast -- and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. And so Kelly's journey to full-blown adulthood begins. When George, too, learns he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her -- and show us a woman as she finally takes the leap and grows up. Kelly Corrigan is a natural-born storyteller, a gift you quickly recognize as her father's legacy, and her stories are rich with everyday details. She captures the beat of an ordinary life and the tender, sometimes fractious moments that bind families together.Rueful and honest, Kelly is the prized friend who will tell you her darkest, lowest, screwiest thoughts, and then later, dance on the coffee table at your party. Funny, yet heart-wrenching, The Middle Place is about being a parent and a child at the same time. It is about the special double-vision you get when you are standing with one foot in each place. It is about the family you make and the family you came from -- and locating, navigating, and finally celebrating the place where they meet. It is about reaching for life with both hands -- and finding it.

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