The Middle Place Kelly Corrigan, happily married mother of two lovely girls, writes a weekly newspaper column and has as a role model her ever upbeat father George. In her mid-thirties, she occupies the Middle Place--" that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap." But a diagnosis of cancer, striking both her and her father, changes her life abruptly. Never depressing, The Middle Place is a coming-of-age memoir, a cancer chronicle, and an homage to an exceptional father.