Lift by Kelly Corrigan

Lift by Kelly Corrigan

No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us.

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--that to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--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.

Kelly Corrigan is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Middle Place and Lift. She also contributes to O, The Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Medium, among other publications. Kelly is one of the co-founders of Notes & Words, an annual benefit performance for Children's Hospital Oakland that brings together writers and musicians onstage. Millions of people have seen her YouTube channel, which includes video essays like Transcending and conversations with authors like Michael Lewis and Anna Quindlen. She and her husband, Edward Lichty, live in the Bay Area with their two girls and a misbehaving chocolate Lab named Hershey.

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ISBN 13	9781401341244
ISBN 10	1401341241
Title	Lift
Author	Kelly Corrigan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hachette Books
Year published	2010-03-02
Number of pages	96
Prizes	Commended for Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2010
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.