Miss McKirdy's Daughters Will Now Dance the Highland Fling is the memoir of a family with a passionate obsession for dancing. It is at once hilarious, pathetic, and unlike any autobiography you've ever read.Barbara and her two sisters will be taught to dance the Highland Fling. On this their mother insists.Conveniently, their mother is a Highland Dance instructor and the elocution teacher at a local Catholic convent school - even though she herself is Protestant. So the girls are raised very properly and taught never to mind all that catechism business.But not all young girls like to do the Highland Fling twenty hours a week. Nor can their father's fondness for drink forever pass for a playful mannerism. Gradually, the entire family has to admit that life itself is more than a merry dance.As these three sisters each come to grips with their own particular demons, they learn to accept and eventually love what they hated most as children - their mother's passionate dedication. Only then can they begin to understand each other. Read Less