Eireann corrigan biography of michael j

Born Home— NJ. Eireann Corrigan began writing at the age of seven, when she sent poems to a brother who was attending high school in Germany. When I decided to publish, the biggest challenge was to try and translate that story into one that the rest of the world might understand. I wrote a lot of the poems that read like interviews in hopes of clarifying things.

You Remind Me of You is made up of free-verse poems that range from those revealing her innermost thoughts to the studies on the particulars of her day-to-day life and interactions. Other poems resemble interviews and focus on the talks between the author and her therapist.

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Although much of the emphasis is on Corrigan's eating disorder, she also recounts her boyfriend's attempted suicide and their mutual recovery and love. Susan Riley wrote in the School Library Journal that she found the book to be an "eloquent and moving poetic memoir. Corrigan's second book, Splintering, is a work of fiction, but once again tells its story through poetry.

The book focuses on a family that begins to fall apart after a man wielding a knife breaks in to their home and attacks them. The story is told in the voices of two of the children, Jeremy and his sister Paulie, as they gradually reveal what happened. The attack occurs when the family is visiting the children's older sister Mimi, who is distressed after finding out that her husband is cheating on her.

During the attack, their father suffers a debilitating heart attack , and Jeremy hides in the basement. Jeremy's mother and sisters hide in a bedroom, only to have the door broken down. Although the mother successfully fends off the drug-crazed madman, family members must each face the trauma resulting from the experience.