Priestdaddy /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2017]Description: 336 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781594633737
- 1594633738
- Priest daddy
- 811/.6 B 23
- PS3612.O27 Z46 2017
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017
SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
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WINNER OF THE 2018 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR
"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." - The New York Times Book Review
From Patricia Lockwood--a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice--a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about balancing identity with family and tradition.
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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introductory Rites (p. 1)
- 1 Meeting of the Minds (p. 15)
- 2 Low Country (p. 37)
- 3 Babies in Limbo (p. 53)
- 4 R & R Circus (p. 71)
- 5 Men of the Cloth (p. 75)
- 6 Dinner with the Bishop (p. 95)
- 7 Put it in Print (p. 113)
- 8 Touch of Genius (p. 123)
- 9 The Cum Queens of Hyatt Place (p. 135)
- 10 Swimming Hole (p. 143)
- 11 Hart and Hind (p. 163)
- 12 Men of the Cloth II: The Clothening (p. 179)
- 13 Blow, Gabriel, Blow (p. 183)
- 14 Voice (p. 203)
- 15 I Am a Priest Forever (p. 223)
- 16 Abortion Barbie (p. 239)
- 17 Missouri Gothic (p. 259)
- 18 Power and Light (p. 279)
- 19 Interior Castle (p. 301)
- 20 Island Time (p. 315)
- Acknowledgments (p. 335)
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Library Journal Review
When Lockwood's (Motherland Fatherland HomelandSexuals) husband needed eye surgery to prevent blindness, the young couple, on their own for the last ten years, moved back home with her parents. Lockwood's father, Greg, a Catholic priest, provides the catalyst for this raunchy yet poignant memoir. Converted by seeing The Exorcist while working on a submarine, Greg, who was already married, received special permission to join the priesthood. A loud, ultraconservative gun enthusiast who hates cats and lesbians, he, along with the church, dominates the family. Lockwood's mother, prone to eccentricity herself, once tried to call the police after finding semen on hotel sheets. What rescues this memoir from sheer craziness is Lockwood's beautiful prose and her ability to shift with ease from the comic to the serious, including alluding to a rape and suicide attempt, as well as the pervasive issues of priest abuse and an overzealous pro-life movement. Lockwood is a poet who is known for her clever sexualized images, which at times can seem over the top. Capturing just the right tone, the author performs her own narration. verdict Recommended for memoir and poetry enthusiasts who are not put off by some vulgarity. ["The title and topic will pique interest, and Lockwood's humor and humility make this a worthy purchase": LJ 4/15/17 review of the Riverhead hc.]-Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
Equipped with acerbic wit and a keen eye for raunchy detail, poet Lockwood (Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals) ventures into nonfiction with this wickedly funny memoir about moving back in with her parents. For eight months in 2013, Lockwood and her husband, Jason, moved back to Kansas City to live in her childhood home. It's a situation colored in no small way by the presence of Lockwood's larger-than-life family, particularly her father, a practicing (and, yes, married) Catholic priest, who loves sports cars and guns and watches action movies in his underwear, and mother, a sweetly earnest, hyperactive woman whose "preferred erotica on the internet [is] German Christmas handcraft." The book includes flashbacks to Lockwood's childhood and adolescence as she grapples with her religious upbringing and finds refuge in the written word. The result is Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood meets David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day, with a poetic twist. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Booklist Review
Lockwood's memoir is a study in contrast. Her father, who became a Catholic priest after he was married and had a family, also happens to only wear boxers around the house, play classic rock guitar, and read Tom Clancy. Lockwood's mother adheres to the social mores of Catholicism but also enjoys a good curse and manages several rounds of puns about a semen stain found in a hotel room. And Lockwood herself, a poet who abandoned the church long ago, loves a dirty joke but still knows exactly what she should be doing at every moment during a service. After Lockwood and her husband fall on financial troubles, they move back into her parents' rectory to regain their footing. This collision of worlds brings a flood of childhood memories filled with antiabortion protests, a bizarre youth group, and the push against her conservative upbringing. Lockwood magically combines laugh-aloud moments with frank discussions of social issues and shows off her poet's skills with lovely, metaphor-filled descriptions that make this memoir shine.--Sexton, Kathy Copyright 2017 BooklistKirkus Book Review
A noted young poet unexpectedly boomerangs back into her parents' home and transforms the return into a richly textured story of an unconventional family and life.After Lockwood (Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, 2014, etc.) discovered that her journalist husband, Jason, needed lens replacements in both his eyes, the pair "[threw themselves] on the mercy of the church." This meant going to Kansas City to live with her mother and eccentric father, an ex-Navy man and former Lutheran minister-turned-deer-hunting, guitar-wielding Catholic priest. For the next eight months, Lockwood and Jason, who had met online when both were 19 and begun their peripatetic married life not long afterward, found they were like "babies in limbo": dependent on parents after 10 years of living on their own. Throughout, Lockwood interweaves a narrative of those eight months with memories of her childhood and adolescence. Though not always occupying center stage, her father is always at the heart of the book. The author describes her "priestdaddy's" penchant for creating "armageddon" with the guitar, which he treated like some illicit lover by practicing it "behind half-closed doors." At the same time, she confesses her own uncomfortable proximity to church pedophile scandals and clerics that had been forced to resign. Lockwood treats other figureslike the mother who wanted to call the police after discovering semen on a Nashville hotel bed and the virgin seminarian "haunted by the concept [of milfs]"with a wickedly hilarious mix of love and scorn. Yet belying the unapologetically raunchy humor is a profound seriousness. Episodes that trace the darker parts of Lockwood's lifesuch as a Tylenol-fueled teenage suicide attempt; her father's arrest at an abortion clinic sit-in; and origins of the disease and sterility that would become her family's "crosses" to bearare especially moving. Funny, tender, and profane, Lockwood's complex story moves with lyrical ease between comedy and tragedy as it explores issues of identity, religion, belonging, and love. A linguistically dexterous, eloquently satisfying narrative debut. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
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 , a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , The New Yorker , The New Republic , Slate , and the London Review of Books . Lockwood lives in Lawrence, Kansas.There are no comments on this title.