Beskrivning
Beskrivning
The 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 hermother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles andwarnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting,guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religiousconversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approvedfor the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despitealready having a wife and children.
When an unexpected crisisforces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory,she must learn to live again with the family’s simmering madness, and toreckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing. Pivoting fromthe raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddyis an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-wonidentity – and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emergewith our levity and our sense of justice intact.
