Little Peg Author:Kevin McIlvoy Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of daily life; and, most important, the students in her Nontraditional English class, where the assignmen... more »t is always to write about Peg.As Peg Struggles to find her place in the outside world, she finds herself drawn into her student's stories. Usurping their material , revising their facts, Peg slowly inches toward the truth until she is finally able to leave behind. By turns brilliantly comic and achingly sad, Little Peg, is a portrait of a single woman, in extremis and in exultation, and of a life transformed by the retrospective powers of a gifted writer.« less