Heart in the Right Place

“A stirring, beautiful memoir that is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, and ultimately a triumph” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). “This is a wonderful book. I would have enjoyed it even if Carolyn wasn’t a neighbor of mine in East Tennessee. She is a great writer.” —Dolly Parton Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mothe