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Hyperion
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
96 pages
ISBN: 1401341241
EAN: 9781401341244
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Inspirational
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.
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