The middle place
By: Kelly Corrigan
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Voice
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781401340933; 9781401303365
Subjects: Family relationships; Patients; Breast; Biography; Cancer
Description: At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she 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. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--but she's abruptly shoved into a coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast. And so her 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes the essay, Transcending (p. [265]-270).