Description
In this candid and darkly comic memoir, a poet returns with her husband to the unusual rectory home of her Catholic priest father, setting the stage for an unforgettable collision of personalities, beliefs, and generations. Through vivid recollections of childhood, religious education, family conflict, and adulthood, she examines the forces that shaped her—and the challenge of creating an identity beyond them. Moving deftly between the raunchy and the profound, the book explores faith, doubt, belonging, sexuality, family loyalty, and the strange persistence of tradition. The result is a sharply observed, irreverent, and deeply affecting portrait of religious upbringing and complicated love.
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paperback
Penguin
Published Jan 1, 2017
354 pages
ISBN: 9781594633737
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood.