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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vibrant, heartbreakingly funny memoir about creating a married Catholic priest for a dad. Dad Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who is in love with action movies, and whose regular jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole music group dying in a planes crash in 1972". His child is an irreverent poet who long ago still left the church's country. When an unexpected problems leads her and her partner to move back to her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her youth and adolescence - from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion medical clinic sit-in where her dad was imprisoned to her engagement in a cultlike Catholic youngsters group - with moments that chronicle the eight-month excursion she and her partner experienced in her parents' household after ten years of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of your seminarian who is also living at the rectory, attempts to clarify Catholicism to her partner, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws and regulations, and encounters a incomprehensible substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, checking out issues of belief, owed, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of your deeply odd spiritual upbringing and how one amounts a hard-won personality with the weight of family and tradition.
