Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir - Softcover

Jourdan, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565126130 ISBN 13: 9781565126138

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2008

Synopsis

Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home—to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mother works as his receptionist. Jourdan offers to fill in for her mother until she gets better. But days turn into weeks as she trades her suits for scrubs and finds herself following hazmat regulations for cleaning up bodily fluids; maintaining composure when confronted with a splinter the size of a steak knife; and tending to the loquacious Miss Hiawatha, whose daily doctor visits are never billed. Most important, though, she comes to understand what her caring and patient father means to her close-knit community.

With great humor and great tenderness, Heart in the Right Place shows that some of our biggest heroes are the ones living right beside us.

About this title

Review:

"[A]n absolute delight of a book: warm, funny and written with great heart and understanding."
--Howard Shirley, BookPage

About the Author:

Carolyn Jourdan, a former U.S. Senate Counsel to the Committee on environment and Public Works and the Committee on Governmental Affairs (now homeland Security and Governmental Affairs), is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. She lives on the family farm in east Knox County, Tennessee

About this edition

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1565126130
• ISBN 13: 9781565126138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322