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Reading from the Middle Place:

Learning to Live Without Hair

Reading from the Middle Place:

The Guess Jeans Fight of 1984

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U P C O M I N G

Saturday, May 3 * 11am - 2pm
Reading with Ann Packer at the ZONTA INTERNATIONAL lunch
Holbrook Palmer Park * 150 Watkins Ave, Atheron, CA
tickets through Faye Mellos at fmellos@hotmail.com

Wednesday, May 14 at 7pm
Reading at The Alameda Free Library
Alameda, CA

Thursday, May 15 at 7pm
Reading at Clair de Lune Boutique, 625 Laurel Street
San Carlos, CA

Saturday, May 17 at 1pm
Contra Costa Reading Festival
San Ramon Library
100 Montgomery St.
San Ramon, CA

Sunday, May 18 * Lunch
Reading at the Corpus Christi Fundraiser, Claremont Country Club
Oakland, CA * tickets contact: Kelly Powers

Wednesday, May 21 * 7pm
Reading at the Orinda Library
Orinda, CA

Saturday, May 31 * 2pm
Reading at the Hayward Library
Hayward, CA

P H I L L Y

Thursday, June 5 * 9:30am at Radnor Library
Wayne, PA

Friday, June 6 * Noon
The Philadelphia Wellness Foundation Lunch
Hyatt, Downtown Philadelphia

B A L T I M O R E

Monday, June 30 * 7pm
Golf Tournament for Cancer

C H I C A G O
If you have a large group (75-100) and would like to schedule a reading in the Chicago area, please email me at kelly@circusofcancer.org. I have openings during the day (for coffees, brown bag lunches, etc.) and would love to help out. I am especially eager to help you raise money for your favorite cause (and have some good ideas from different groups I've already worked with).

Tuesday, July 8
South Bend, IN

Wednesday, July 9 * 7pm
Chicago, IL

Thursday, July 10 * 7pm
Chicago, IL

Looking forward to O C T O B E R

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I will be in Nashville, Philly, Baltimore , Seattle and Connecticut. May also have stops in NY.

About S E A T T L E
If you have a large group (75-100) and would like to schedule a reading in the Chicago area, please email me at kelly@circusofcancer.org. I have openings during the week of October 20 and would love to help out. I am especially interested in fundraisers for your favorite cause (and have some good ideas from different groups I've already worked with).

N E W S

The Middle Place has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for four weeks.

Sunday, February 3
SF Chronicle Reviews The Middle Place "Rarely has someone described the infinite small moments of parenting so imaginatively yet so precisely...so, come for the writing, stay for the life-and-death drama. Or vice versa. Either way, you won't regret it." Regan McMahon, SF Chronicle Deputy Book Editor

Kelly has essays in the current issues of Glamour and Good Housekeeping and the May issue of O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine.

The Middle Place has been chosen as a Booksense pick for January 2008. Booksense is the largest association of independent booksellers in the US.

The Middle Place
was profiled in O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine's January issue. The Middle Place was also recommended by Glamour , Family Circle, People, Blueprint, Good Housekeeping and ELLE Magazine.

For two days I ignored my family while I devoured Kelly Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place. I spent a good part of that time crying, but mostly I was laughing. In the tradition of the best memoirists (Anne Lamott and Anna Quindlen come to mind) she captures our hearts and teaches us something new about family, love, and yes, even death.

— Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

I haven't become so immediately caught up in or so compelled by a book in ages…Kelly Corrigan's lightning-fast ability to establish that rare, mysterious bond between book and reader overwhelmed me. There are all sorts of things to be said about her bravery, and about what she can explain to many of us about illness, but this is a wonderful book about being alive.

— Robb Forman Dew, author of The Truth of the Matter and The Time of Her Life

The Middle Place is inspiring, luminous, and true. Reading this memoir, I felt like an honorary member of the Corrigan family . . . Kelly Corrigan is a wonderful writer.

—Luanne Rice, author of What Matters Most