Priestdaddy
by Patricia Lockwood
Buy on AmazonPriestdaddy is a memoir by American poet Patricia Lockwood. It was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times and was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor. In 2019, The New York Times included the book on its list "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years," and The Guardian named it one of the 100 best books of the 21st century.
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"“I like to think I sprang from a head; I like to think the head was mine,” writes Patricia Lockwood in Priestdaddy, her affectionate memoir of growing up with a Catholic priest for a father. But no. She sprang from the loins of Father Gregory Lockwood, who rarely wears pants, washes himself with dish soap and plays the guitar like “a whole band dying in a plane crash in the year 1972.” At its best, Priestdaddy is antic, funny and humane."
NPR Books We Love — 2017 · apps.npr.org
"I'd enjoyed her memoir, "Priestdaddy," and was first intrigued and then delighted."
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