Kelly Corrigan's Memoir "Tell Me More" Is More or Less More of What She's Written Before

Kelly Corrigan (b Amer 1967) is non-fiction writer whose previous novels "Glitter and Glue" & "The Middle Place" are contemplative memoirs meant to be both self-deprecating, reflective and wrapped in wisdom.  The wisdom come's from life's hard knocks that knocks everyone about: grief, illness and feelings of failures.  Corrigan comes from a Catholic family whose patriarch was a beloved saint.  She paints her father in every shade of love and his loss exacts a heavy toll. All told, she's already explored her family's history, loves and loss her wonders & frustrations of raising children, and her own breast cancer diagnosis.  In "Tell Me More" Kelly's two girls are now teens and all the headaches that means.  She's also reeling from the loss of a dear friend.  Some will find her imbalance relatable, comforting, touching and charming.   Her life is an open book which can be endearing and off-putting.  Her writing is endearing in her candidness and off-putting in its preachiness.  Pretty much of what she's written in "Tell Me More" she's shared with us before and one memoir blurs into the other except as she's older, wiser but still the same old same old.