A mother and a daughter both

Kelly Corrigan's book The Middle Place is wonderful. I found myself laughing and crying, sometimes within pages of each other. Corrigan says the middle place is that time in life when you are both a parent and a child. There is a short passage that I really loved, about how all the paperwork (marriage license, mortgage statement, tax forms, etc) indicates that you are a successful adult but still there are times that you just want to run home to daddy/mommy.

Part of this memior deals with Corrigan's breast cancer fight and her father's simultaneous fight against bladder cancer. The rest of the book is full of stories about life as "George Corrigan's daughter" and the way that made her feel. This is one of those books that defies description. All I can really say is "go out and read it!"