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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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Learning to Live Without Hair

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

An amazing story told with steep honesty, buckets of humor and, above all, integrity. The Middle Place is memoir at its highest form.

—Darin Strauss, author of The Real McCoy and Chang and Eng

The Middle Place is a memoir that reads like a novel and sings like an Irish tenor. When Kelly Corrigan writes, she makes you want to come home.

—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer