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A Memoir
Carolyn Jourdan

When Carolyn Jourdan's mother has a heart attack, Carolyn takes a leave of absence from her high-powered, glamorous U.S. Senate counsel job to become a receptionist and aide to her country-doctor father in east Tennessee. ''I'll come home for a few days,'' she agrees, and then finds those days stretching into months.

Suddenly Carolyn is tending to all the working poor of her father's medical practice, from filling out Medicare forms to helping Miss Hiawatha, whose daily doctor visits are never billed, to removing a splinter the ''size of a steak knife.''

Jourdan writes with humor, humility, and tenderness in capturing the life of the Tennessee community her parents have served for years. I laughed out loud at the characters who come into the clinic—Southern people whose lives are interesting and endearing.

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I was so moved to read about Jourdan's growing understanding that helping one person at a time from behind a receptionist desk can be more important than organizing huge black-tie dinners for dignitaries and making sweeping policy decisions in Washington.

Her love and respect for her father's tireless efforts and all the ways her parents give to others shines forth from the pages. We are left with a tangible sense of what it means to be human and to know when a heart is in the "right place." You will love this real and delightful book.

(Ages: Adult)

#13134 - Paperback Book - 297 pgs
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Read how a U.S. Senate counsel comes home to east Tennessee to help her country doctor father and ends up discovering where her heart truly is.