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Lift

by Kelly Corrigan
Kelly Corrigan
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Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan’s Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children.
Lift takes its name from hang gliding, a pursuit that requires flying directly into rough air, because turbulence saves a glider from “sinking out.” For Corrigan, this wisdom becomes a metaphor for all of life’s most meaningful endeavors, particularly the great flight that is parenting.
Corrigan serves it up straight—how mundanely and fiercely her children have been loved, how close most lives occasionally come to disaster, and how often we fall short as mothers and fathers. Lift is for everyone who has been caught off guard by the pace and vulnerability of raising children, to remind us that our work is important and our time limited.
Like Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea, Lift is a meditation on the complexities of a woman’s life, and like Corrigan’s memoir, The Middle Place, Lift is boisterous and generous, a book readers can’t wait to share.

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  • Release date

    March 2, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307736772
      • File size: 45212 KB
      • Duration: 01:34:11

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With this intimate book, addressed to her daughters, Corrigan illuminates the joys and the risks of parenthood. Her title metaphor--lift--reveals the inevitable connection between the heady updrafts that help hang gliders soar and the turbulence that inevitably accompanies such thermals. Though Corrigan's voice first strikes the ear as a little flat, even deadpan, it quickly becomes the only voice to read this material. The author handles emotionally wrenching passages with a matter-of-fact steadiness that underlines how the awful pops out of nowhere and makes its home in everyday life. We're never prepared for life's gut-punching events, Corrigan points out, though when they happen, we somehow manage. LIFT will make listeners laugh, cry, and laugh while they cry as they ponder the sacred risks of parenting and love. J.C.G (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 1, 2010
      Penned as a letter to her two young daughters, the latest from author Corrigan is an attempt to illuminate their particular relationship ("I want to put down on paper how things started with us"), and an ambitious, inspirational meditation on parenthood in general. A slim volume, it perhaps suffers for its brevity but recounts engagingly events like Corrigan and her husband's decision to start a family, and baby Claire's bout with viral meningitis, "the beginning of how I came to know what a bold and dangerous thing parenthood is." She also examines the gifts all mothers hope to present their kids: "a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of a tribe, a run at happiness." Fans of Corrigan's The Middle Place, a memoir of her fight with cancer, will welcome the return of figures like Corrigan's father, Greenie, and should appreciate her wistful but down-to-earth thoughts on parenthood. Newcomers might be less inspired, but should appreciate Corrigan's charm and honesty.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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