Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Unabridged) Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Unabridged)

Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father.

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.

In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence - from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group - with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother.

Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
PL
Patricia Lockwood
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:13
hr min
RELEASED
2017
May 2
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
387.8
MB

Customer Reviews

mtcgti ,

Hilarious, poignant and forgiving

I loved this book. Having grown up in a religious household and later rebelling, this memoir spoke to me. Her observations of her parents are tender while being eviscerating. Her observations of religion are mocking while being able to see their value. Remarkable book.

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