Publisher, Blackstone Audio (January 2008)

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A Library Journal Best Audiobook of 2008 for Nonfiction

“[A]n optimistic celebration of life, love, and family....Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

“Tavia Gilbert's performance fully captures Corrigan's youthful exuberance, shock, and evolving maturity....Her father's boisterous energy and expansive can-do personality are also brought vividly to life.” —AudioFile

“Those learning to accept their own adulthood might find strength—and humor—in Corrigan’s feisty memoir.” —Publishers Weekly

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 unbelievably powerful and healing father-daughter relationship that evolves as they both must battle cancer.

Uplifting without shying away from the realities of illness, Corrigan’s highly personal story examines what it means when the one person who has been your source of strength is in need of some himself and that bittersweet “in between” moment when you’re a devoted wife and mother but you’ll always be daddy’s girl.

About the Author: KELLY CORRIGAN is a newspaper columnist and photographer. Shortly after her own battle with breast cancer, she launched CircusOfCancer.org, a website for friends and family of women with the disease. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and their two daughters.