PRIESTDADDY

Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017 Vogue Glorious Sunday Times Laugh out loud funny The Times Extraordinary Observer Exceptional Telegraph Electric New York Times Snort out loud Financial Times Dazzling Guardian Do yourself a favour and read this memoir BookPageWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOURThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood the poet dubbed The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence Kansas by The New York Times was unusual in many respects There was the location an impoverished nuclear waste riddled area of the American Midwest There was her mother a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger Above all there was her gun toting guitar riffing frequently semi naked father who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI despite already having a wife and children When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents rectory she must learn to live again with the family s simmering madness and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime from the comic to the