{"product_id":"priestdaddy-a-memoir","title":"Priestdaddy: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post * Elle *\u003c\/i\u003e NPR * \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Affectionate and very funny . . . wonderfully grounded and authentic. This book proves Lockwood to be a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, author of the novel \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Talking About This\u003c\/i\u003e, a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about balancing identity with family and tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFather 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. \u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947833000167,"sku":"9780399573262","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_bce1815f-8f22-4fd2-be84-ca959c9bc4ac.jpg?v=1775502414","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/priestdaddy-a-memoir","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}