Kelly Corrigan wrote an excellent memoir of her experience of cancer and motherhood called The Middle Place. Her ebullient father “Greenie” featured prominently in that book and now she’s spent an entire book examining her relationship with — and adult-won admiration of — her mother using the narrative of her post-college job nanny-ing for Milly and Martin Tanner, whose own mother has died of cancer when Kelly arrives in Australia with no more money and no particular interest in nanny-ing at all. She makes me think I should sit my ass down and write every day. Inspiring.
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