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Lockwood, Patricia.
Lockwood, Patricia.
Children of clergy -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
Women poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Middle West -- Biography.
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Priestdaddy : a memoir / Patricia Lockwood.
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Lockwood, Patricia.
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017.
Call #:
921
L817p
Subjects
Lockwood, Patricia.
Children of clergy -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
Women poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Middle West -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781594633737 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Priest daddy : a memoir
Description:
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Subtitle from cover.
Contents:
Introductory rites -- Meeting of the minds -- Low country -- Babies in limbo -- R&R circus -- Men of the cloth -- Dinner with the bishop -- Put it in print -- Touch of genius -- The cum queens of Hyatt Place -- Swimming hole -- Hart and hind -- Men of the cloth II: the clothening -- Blow, Gabriel, blow -- Voice -- I am a priest forever -- Abortion Barbie -- Missouri gothic -- Power and light -- Interior castle -- Island time.
Summary:
"Married with five children, Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, 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. 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. Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. She lives in Savannah, Georgia."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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