With full-bodied humor and radical sensitivity, Kelly Corrigan transforms the mundane pain of life into a necessary spiritual text of sorts, one that reminds us that we have the right to grieve but the obligation to be grateful. This book will remind you that you are human—and of the fragile loveliness of being so.
— Lena Dunham
This book is beautiful. It’s funny and real and fearless and deep in a way that made me grateful it exists.
— Judd Apatow
Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth and courage. I will return to this book again and again.
— Glennon Doyle
Tell Me More, a memoir so beautifully honest in its depiction of love and loss, transformed me.
— Imbolo Mbue

Warm, funny and a touch bitter sweet.
— Kirkus Reviews
Inspiring, luminous, and true.
— Luanne Rice
 
A memoir that reads like a novel and sings like an Irish tenor.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
More complex–and funny–than one would ever imagine.
— San Francisco Chronicle
 
I haven’t been so immediately caught up in a book in ages. A wonderful book about being alive.
— Robb Forman Dew
 
Funny and irresistibly exuberant.
— O The Oprah Magazine

In Glitter and Glue, Kelly Corrigan gives us a lovely and insightful lesson in what it means to be both a mother and a daughter. This book will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and I know that you will gobble it up in a single day, just like I did.
— Ayelet Waldman, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Mother
Kelly Corrigan parses the bittersweet complexities of motherhood with humor and grace. Her writing has depth and buoyancy and light. It’s a river on a summer day. You slip into the current, laughing, and are carried away by it. Glitter and Glue is a perfect gift for anyone with a mother.
— Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Spook
 
I teared up so many times while reading Glitter and Glue, thinking, See? You never stop needing your mother. With open-hearted wisdom, Kelly Corrigan beautifully illustrates the idea that life goes on no matter what—and that even the impossible is always possible.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh, New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers
Nobody tells a more natural story – with more easy charm; with such personal warmth and style – than Kelly Corrigan. In Glitter and Glue she’s your dream tour guide, making you laugh as she points out the biggies – love and death, mothers and daughters, sickness and health.
— Darin Strauss, award-winning author of Half a Life
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I mostly write true stories about family life for adults but I did want to find a way to encourage children to become the world’s best question askers, which led to Hello World!, a book for graduates of all ages and stages.

I believe that even more exciting than the places you will go are the people you will know. Hello World!, written in honor of my dad, is about embracing every interaction as an opportunity to connect and asking questions as a way of life. Order anywhere you get your books. Personalized, signed gift copies can be ordered through www.bookpassage.com/corrigan


Lift will be the Mother’s Day gift of choice deep into the next millenium.
— People Magazine
Kelly Corrigan is the Poet Laureate of the Ordinary.
— Huffington Post
 
Once in a great while, a small book comes along and packs a mighty punch.
— Kansas City Star
I love Kelly Corrigan. Her work gives me a rich sense of intimacy with someone who is full of life and hard-fought wisdom.
— Anne Lamott