The Middle Place

In a coming-of-age memoir about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up, Kelly Corrigan brilliantly explores the "middle place" between childhood and adulthood, and how one woman made the leap to the other side. "The thing you need to know about me," she begins, "is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter." Intertwining her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American-born salesman father, Corrigan illustrates an unbelievably powerful and healing father-daughter relationship that evolves as they both must battle cancer. Uplifting without shying away from the realities of illness, Corrigan's highly personal story examines what it means when the one person who has been your source of strength is in need of some himself and that bittersweet "in between" moment when you're a devoted wife and mother but you'll always be daddy's girl.