Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Kelly Corrigan Lecture

Yet another author lecture in Baltimore...

Sinai Hospital Auxillary is celebrating its 60th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, October 2, 2008 with a lecture by Kelly Corrigan, author of bestselling memoir The Middle Place, and music with Three of a Kind.

The event starts at 7:30pm at Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Avenue, Pikesville, MD 21208.

Free and open to the public but reservations are required; call 410-601-5033.

Here's a synopsis of The Middle Place:
For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place—"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"—comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast—and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her—and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.

Click here to read an excerpt.

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