Lift by Kelly Corrigan (Epub)

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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.Praise for Lift”Although we’ve never met, I love Kelly Corrigan like a friend. Her work gives me a rich sense of intimacy with someone who is full of life and hard-fought wisdom. She’s hilarious, tender-hearted, tough, loyal, wild, and screwed-up–like all the coolest women I know.”–Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird and Traveling MerciesPraise for The Middle Place”Funny and irresistibly exuberant.”–O, The Oprah Magazine”Come for the writing, stay for the drama. Or vice versa. Either way, you won’t regret it.”–San Francisco Chronicle”Plan to laugh, cry, and be consumed by Kelly Corrigan.”–Winston-Salem Journal”For two days I ignored my family while I devoured Kelly Corrigan’s memoir. I spent a good part of that time crying, but mostly I was laughing . . . She captures our hearts and teaches us something new about family, love, and yes, even death.”–Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From Publishers Weekly 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. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the Author Kelly Corrigan is the author of The Middle Place, a New York Times bestseller. She is a YouTube sensation whose beloved “Transcending” video was sent woman-to-woman to more than 4 million viewers. She is also a contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine and Good Housekeeping, and is the founder of circusofcancer.org. She lives outside San Francisco with her husband and children.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I fell in love with this author, through her stellar ability to create a visual story with words, bring you to tears, then make you laugh so hard you get stitches, she became like a close family friend. I feel like she lives around the corner and I’m waiting for her to call with details about her latest adventure. Her words took me back to some of my childhood experiences that were similar, I felt like we shared the same mother.Ms Corrigan, please write more stories for me to get lost in and to treasure forever!

⭐I’ve read all her books and I completely adore Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place. This one was sweet and a nice short read, but left me wondering a little why it was published for mass market. Can’t wait to see what she produces next!

⭐A lovely inspiration for any mother or would-be parent, this book describes all the anguish and the joy. I loved it.

⭐The shipping box was not damaged, but looks like a large dog took a bite out of the first (blank) page of the book. Won’t affect reading, but is a tad shy of what you’d expect for a new book. No intention of returning it for a new one as that would be way more effort than warranted.

⭐I read Kelly Corrigan’s second memoir, Lift, in one sitting, and wished it would go on forever. Lift, a pastiche of Corrigan’s family life told through several insightful, elegant, sometimes heart-wrenching vignettes is imbued with a perception and candor that is Corrigan’s hallmark. This is a woman who knows what’s important in life, who knows when to ask questions, when to take notes, and when to put the pen down. It was Corrigan’s deposition-like questioning which earned her the title of the book. During one such session, a friend’s husband who loves to hang glide revealed that lift is what one gets when, while hang gliding, you encounter an upward force that counteracts the force of gravity, a change in the direction of a moving stream of air. In the sport of hang gliding, it’s your sole method of propulsion. His description, more dangerous than his wife knew or had cared to admit, and Corrigan’s retelling of the moment her friend realizes the danger her husband periodically subjects himself to is demonstrative of Corrigan’s brilliance as a writer. In a sentence, a single snapshot of their lives, she reveals the scope of their relationship, exposing both strength and vulernability with a simple turn of phrase. This ability to weigh life in words and to make it universal is the mark of a fine writer.Lift is ostensibly a letter to Corrigan’s daughters, something for them to have when they reach a certain age, or maybe one day when their mother is gone. Perhaps it was Corrigan’s bout with breast cancer that started her thinking about things. She chronicled that experience, interlaced with her own childhood stories, in her first book, The Middle Place. Or maybe it was the horror of ovarian cancer which cost her not only her ovaries, but the chance for more children, something she says she may never get over. Whatever the genesis, Corrigan’s cancer allowed her to let people in and do for her as she never could before. As a result, she doesn’t look at life the way most people do. She knows that the long haul could be short indeed, and she views each moment through her close up lens — Corrigan is also an excellent photographer — knowing that it’s a crap shoot, that we could get just this one day or 10,000 more, and soaking it all in while it’s there in front of her. I met her briefly at a Jr. League Author’s Luncheon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the woman has an uncanny ability to connect with everyone she meets, size them up in a few seconds and give them exactly what they need — no veils or hidden doors, just open communication and full on love — as if there’s not a moment to lose. At first you think she might be BS’ing you, or that maybe she’s looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, but then you realize she’s popped out the lenses and there’s nothing obstructing her view. Plus, like her writing, she’s funny as hell. Lift is not a memoir in the traditional sense, but a brief historic family interlude told through its still strong, still beating heart center. You can read Lift in an afternoon, but like Corrigan herself, you’ll remember it for a lifetime.

⭐Read, relate, regurgitate, and remember.Lovely book about motherhood. The good, the bad, and the ugly truth. All moms can relate.

⭐This is a beautiful memoir of motherhood that I read in under an hour. I read it for the first first time while pregnant with my first child. It was very emotional at the time. Years later I read it again as the mother of two little ones. Corrigan speaks to the unique experience of loving someone as much as we do our children.

⭐Lift is a wonderfully delightful read. A great follow up to Corrigan’s memoir “A Middle Place”. Written as a love letter to her two daughters the author does a admirable job describing a parent’s love for their child. Especially affecting was the passage about Corrigan’s friend deciding to have artificial insemination and when telling her very catholic very conservative Grandmother is unexpectedly blessed to have her complete support. Lift has inspired me write a letter to my own young daughters.

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