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'Priestdaddy' Shimmers With Wonderful, Obscene Life

Patricia Lockwood's scabrous memoir of growing up with a married Catholic priest for a father is a little overreliant on quirky family details, but scorching in its approach to the Catholic Church.
<em>Priestdaddy</em> by Patricia Lockwood

"I like to think I sprang from a head; I like to think the head was mine," writes Patricia Lockwood in Priestdaddy, her memoir of growing up with a Catholic priest for a father.

But no. She sprang from the (oft-exposed) loins of Father Gregory Lockwood, who converted on board a submarine while watching the : "That eerie, pea-soup light was pouring down, and all around him men in sailor suits were getting the

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