Lift

Lift

<em>No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us.</em></br></br> Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's <em>Lift</em> is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In <em>Lift</em>, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children.</br></br> <em>Lift</em> 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.</br></br> 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. <em>Lift</em> 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.</br></br> Like Anne Morrow Lindbergh's <em>Gift from the Sea, Lift</em> is a meditation on the complexities of a woman's life, and like Corrigan's memoir, <em>The Middle Place, Lift</em> is boisterous and generous, a book readers can't wait to share.