The Middle Place

In a coming of age memoir about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up, Kelly Corrigan brilliantly explores the “middle place” between childhood and adulthood, and how one woman made the leap to the other side.

“The thing you need to know about me,” she begins, “is that I am George Corrigan’s daughter, his only daughter.” Intertwining her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman father, Corrigan illustrates an unbeli…