The middle place helped me to appreciate even more deeply the spirit of a young woman kelly corrigan who like my beloved daughter had to surrender to her baldness and her new identity post diagnosis this kind of put your feet down on the floor every morning living takes enormous courage and humor it all comes through in this memoir it also takes sheer guts to write about a journey . The middle place is a book that will resonate with countless women in their 30s women trying to figure out how to stand on their own two feet when its so comfortable to still be coddled by doting parents the books jacket description states this but makes it sound like a reasonable and sympathetic dilemma reading the book myself i got a more negative spin on this quandary i . The middle place is a love letter to family and home and life linda greenlaw author of the hungry ocean and slipknot kelly corrigan takes what might have been a fairly standard story of survival and reframes it most charmingly as a coming of age narrative we see here a headstrong girl under the most severe adversity turn into a genuinely strong woman carolyn see author of . Funny yet heart wrenching the middle place is about being a parent and a child at the same time it is about the special double vision you get when you are standing with one foot in each place it is about the family you make and the family you came from and locating navigating and finally celebrating the place where they meet