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Kelly Corrigan has a great sense of humor, an honest voice, and a brilliant way of telling it like it is—but that's just for starters. It's her heart that really counts. The Middle Place is a love letter to family and home and life.

—Linda Greenlaw, author of The Hungry Ocean and Slipknot

Kelly Corrigan's utterly absorbing memoir, The Middle Place, is wry, smart, and often heart wrenching. Corrigan takes us down memory lane and then, at the same time, down some other, darker road most of us hope never to travel. Yet we follow her all the way, quite willingly, I might add, thanks to her sharp eye for the details and her great sense of humor.

—Cynthia Kaplan, author of Why I’m Like This and Leave the Building Quickly

Kelly Corrigan takes what might have been a fairly standard story of survival, and reframed 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 Making a Literary Life