The Middle Place
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1401340938 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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.. 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. 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
"A Memoir of Triumph" according to Mary Jane Hurley Brant. I loved this story of life and strength, family and love. The Middle Place helped me to appreciate even more deeply the spirit of a young woman - Kelly Corrigan - who, like my beloved daughter, had to surrender to her baldness and her new identity post diagnosis. This kind of "put your feet down on the floor every morning" living takes enormous courage and humor. It all comes through in this memoir. It also takes sheer guts to write about a journey tha. Page Turner said Funny, Sad, Inspiring!. I laughed out loud, I cried, I was inspired I couldn't put the book down. Great story that kept me wondering all the way to the end.. It's About Life, Not Death P. L. Petersen Someone said every book is ultimately about death. That thought applies to Kelly Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place. Corrigan, a young wife and mother in her thirties faces her own mortality with a breast cancer diagnosis. At the same time she desperately strategizes with her family of origin to find the best treatment for her beloved father, also diagnosed with cancer. She is caught in the middle place between protecting her children and her father.
All these stories lead up to where she is now, in that middle place, being someone's child, but also having children of her own. From Publishers Weekly Newspaper columnist Corrigan was a happily married mother of two young daughters when she discovered a cancerous lump in her breast. Those learning to accept their own adulthood might find strength—and humor—in Corrigan's feisty memoir. Growing up, she loved hearing her father boom out his morning HELLO WORLD dialogue with the universe, so his kids would feel like the world wasn't just a safe place but was even rooting for you. As Corrigan reports on her cancer treatment—the chemo, the surgery, the radiation—she weaves in the story of how it felt growing up in a big, suburban Philadelphia family with her larger-than-life father and her steady-loving mother and brothers. She tells how she met her husband, how she gave birth to her daughters. Corrigan's story could have been unbearably depressing had
While they're at school, Kelly writes a newspaper column, the occasional magazine article, and possible chapters of a novel. Kelly Corrigan is, more than anything else, the mother of two young girls. Kelly lives outside San Francisco with her husband, Edward Lichty, and their children. . She is also the creator of CircusOfCancer, a website that teaches people how to help a friend through breast cancer