Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

This is the book I'm pitching to the bookclub this year.

Corrigan defines the middle place as the spot where the titles "Someone's Kid" and "Someone's Parent" collide. This is her happiest place - she's still the daughter of the renown George Corrigan, but also the mom of 2 beautiful girls. Then her sense of definition is called into question as she and her dad deal with cancer simultaneously.

It's not a sad cancer book. Really, it's a great, funny book about families and the way we relate to one another.

I usually avoid cancer books like a CA-125 test, but this one hardly stung at all.

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