[Family-of-origin issues + family squabbles + everyday slice of life + parent-child relationships + post-2000 generation]
The middle child, as the name suggests, is the child who comes between the others in a family.
This middle child is the second child, the second daughter, wedged between her older sister and younger brother.
This story follows the everyday life of a middle child in the south, an ordinary girl born in the 2000s,
seeing the shifting fortunes of three generations of one family through the eyes of a young girl.