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Heart in the Right Place
Author: Carolyn Jourdan

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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 29
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ISBN-13: 9781565126138 - ISBN-10: 1565126130
Publication Date: 8/19/2008

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Polly J. (spiritedbabe59) wrote on 9/19/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Carolyn Jourdan's memoir of her father's medical practice is a heartwarming story of a dying breed of doctors. There are fewer and fewer true "family" practice offices out there that tend to the everyday ailments of the rural popualtion in the US. The quirky folks you will meet in this book will make you chuckle and wish you could be a fly on the wall of this office!

T. wrote on 9/17/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Carolyn Jourdan's amusing but poignant spiritual journey into what is really most important in life does not disappoint. Jourdan comes back home to rural Tennessee from her prestigious job in Washington, DC to help her father, a doctor, while her mother, his receptionist, recuperates from an illness. Her descriptions of the parade of eccentric but lovable characters through her father's small country medical practice leave the reader completely absorbed into the story and wanting more. By the end of the story a realization sets in--success is not measured by fame, money, or location of residence--but by the small, although significant, differences for the better we make in other's lives.


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Kenna C. (Kenna) wrote on 8/14/2009...


An easy read about life in a small town!


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