A review from reader Nancy Duncan:
The middle place is not a great place to be
I'm referring to the book "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan. She describes this as the time in life where you are an adult with a spouse and children, but you are still a child of your own parents.
Kelly is living in LA with her husband Edward and her two young girls when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. As difficult as this would be to deal with, Kelly's father George, back home in Baltimore, is also diagnosed with bladder cancer.
Kelly and George have a wonderful father-daughter relationship. He is the kind of guy who can make friends with anyone, who can find out a stranger's life story over a casual meeting, who can make anyone feel good. Sometimes I felt that Kelly's mother was left out of this wonderful life, but she seemed content to take a back seat to George and his oversized personality.
This isn't just a story about cancer and its effects on family, it is a story about family and how it handles a devastating diagnosis.
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