{"product_id":"9780141984599-priestdaddy","title":"Priestdaddy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eLaugh-out-loud funny'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exceptional'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Electric'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Snort-out-loud'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e,  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 serious, \u003ci\u003ePriestdaddy\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Destined to be a classic . \u003cb\u003ethis year's must-read memoir\u003c\/b\u003e'  Mary Karr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Irrepressible . \u003cb\u003ejoyous, funny and filthy\u003c\/b\u003e . Lockwood blows the roof off every paragraph'  Joe Dunthorne, author of \u003ci\u003eSubmarine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautiful, funny and poignant. \u003cb\u003eI wish I'd written this book\u003c\/b\u003e'  Jenny Lawson, author of \u003ci\u003eFuriously Happy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA  revelatory debut \u003c\/b\u003e. Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic .  . her portrait of her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and  stuffed to bursting with emotional insight'  Joss Whedon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003ePraise God, this is why books were invented\u003c\/b\u003e'  Emily Berry, author of \u003ci\u003eDear Boy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStranger, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31161046466657,"sku":"9780141984599","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32233253.jpg?v=1737103095","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141984599-priestdaddy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}