Priestdaddy: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XH3YN3W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 107 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Priests' kids are gonna like this" according to Michael. DON'T give this as a gift to your priest! Or to his wife. But their PKs ("priest's kids") have got to like it--especially if they've already grown up and finished high school and moved out of the rectory and don't go to church anymore. Patricia Lockwood is a PK and a poet and an artist and a writer and poignant and funny. Her parents are human. Now I want to read more from her.My favorite parts are when she writes about the seminarian who came to live with them in the rectory for a summer to learn how to be a priest. Her inte. Loved, laughed and smiled at my Kindle App for Loved, laughed and smiled at my Kindle App for days. You know what never got a chuckle? The Tao of Pooh. Not from me. Yes, great memoir. Very important to note how much this book POWNS The Tao of Pooh.. The Tao of Pooh can suck it Northern NJ Mom This book is undoubtedly better than The Tao of Pooh. It is at once hilarious and poignant, wholly unbelievable and deeply relatable. Truly a joy to read, start to finish.
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. 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. 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.. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence - from an ill-fated f